VICTORIA.

Evening Post, Issue 161, 14 August 1865, Page 2

VICTORIA.

The effect of the stoppage of the supplies by the Legislative Council is beginning* to be seen and will soon be felt. The following notice appears in a Government Gazette: — '"The Treasury, Melbourne, 28th July, 1865. Notice is hereby given that the amount legally available on account of moneys voted by the Legislative Assembly for the public service of the year being insufficient, payment of salaries, wages, and contingencies must be delayed until the necessary authority for the expenditure shall have been obtained. — George Verdon." The legally available money in the Treasury has been used to pay the balance of the daily labourers, owing to their very pressing calls. According to the Argus the Protectionist agitators have changed the scene of their operations from St. George's Hall to the suburbs. Assemblages gathered at the National Hall, Collingwood, and the Town Hali, Prahran, and passed the usual highly spiced resolutions, with the customary acclamations. The motion of confidence in the Minister of Lands, of which notice was given by Mr. Kyte, in the Legislative Assembly, recently, has been withdrawn, pending the action brought by Mr. Grant against the Argus. Protectionist meetings are being held to support, the Ministry ; the free traders meet on Monday. In the Victoria Government Gazette we find a reward of £200, and free pardon to an accomplice, offered by the Government, for such information as shall lead to the conviction of the person or persons guilty ot the murder of Henry Junod, vinedresser, on the 3rd July last, at Sunbury. Mr. Thomas M'Callum, with the great American equestrian troupe, has arrived in Melbourne from Sydney, by the steamship City of Melbourne. The Bank of Victoria have declared a dividend of 12 J per cent. The Portland Guardian says — To Mr. Henty, Burswood, is due the merit of being, so far as we are aware, the first to introduce English song birds to Portland. By the steamer of last Thursday there arrived a pair of blackbirds and a couple of English thrushes. A public meeting has been held at Chiltern, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of the construction of a line of railway from Goornong to Albury, as surveyed by the railway department. A very rich golden reef has been discovered at Tarrangower, in the Cymru Company's claim, at a depth of 260 feet. There is a 40 feet block literally strewed with gold. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Salsette, after a protracted passage of nearly five days from Sydney, arrived in Hobson's Bay Thursday forenoon. The cause of detention is attributed to having put into Twofold Bay to repair damages sustained off Gabo Island to, her steering wheel, it having been smashed, during a heavy gale of wind, by a sea breaking over her stern.. The same sea also washed overboard one of the crew, a Lascar, carried Jaway the binnacle, and half filled the cabin with water. Shortly before this, the jibboora and foretopmast were broken, but, l^t the gale hare been what it might, one of our coasting steamers (the A.S.N. Co.'s steamer, City of Adelaide) weathered it out, and arrived here thirty -four hours before the Salsette, which plainly shows that she (the Salsette) s not adapted for the conveyance of our mails with any degree of despatch oi regu-

larity. The following is the report of hor passage, as furnished from Sydney : — Left at two p.m. on the 22nd inst., had fine weather uutil rounding Gabo Island, when a strong head gale with hea\'3' sea was encountered. On the morning of the 24th carried away the binnacle, and washed a man overboard ; then bore up for Twofold Bay to repair damages ; and which having been effected, as far as the steering apparatus was concerned, by noon on the following day (25th), left for Melbourne, and arrived at Port Phillip Heads at 11 p.m. on 26tli, anchored there for the night. Cot under weigh Thursday morning at day-light, and anchored in Hobson's Bay at eleven a.m., having come up by the south channel. — Melbourne Leader, 29th. The Geelong Advertiser states that the report that the employes of the Union Bank intend to refund the property abstracted by the absent clerk is without foundation. This denial is given upon the authority of Mr D. Lewis of Tasmania. The Dunolly Express states that three nuggets have been found in different claims on Gooseberrry hill this week. On Mon* day a one ounce piece was picked out in driving in the Great Britain claim. On Tuesday Davis and party, near the Union Company, obtained a fifteen-ounce piece, and Smith and party a piece weighing seven and a half ounces. At Smeaton a revenue detective dressed himself in the garb of a 'cockatoo,' and having purchased eighteen eggs, took them to a store for sale, cheap, as they were all he had left, and he wanted to get home. The storekeeper eager to turn an honest penny, bought the goods, and the vendor being ' very cold,' thought a nobbier of rum would do him good. A sixpence was laid down, the rum was served, and there is no doubt the eggs will hatch chickens that the storekeeper will find of a very expensive kind."