AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2022, 28 October 1869, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A fin® nugget weighing 173 oa ha* been found in the oil workings in the neighbourhood of Alma in Maryborough district. The estate of Mr Hugh Glass has at last boan placed in assignment. Owing to the pressure of creditors, and the conflicting interests that are connected with the estate, it was deemed absolutely necessary either to resort to the Insolvency Court, or to make an assignment. A private letter states —Mi?s Gladstone, sister of Lady Belmore, proceeds to England by the November mail, to be married to a gentleman of birth, worth, and large fortune a native of the colony, namely, W. A. Durnaresq, Esq., a son of the late Captain Duma* resq. Mr Dumaresq is to follow in the December mail steamer, and the marriage is to be celebrated in England. —Yass Courier. In the Beechworth district heavy rains fell on the 16th and 17th inst. The river Murray overflowed its banks for a mile and a half wide at Howlong, The flats between Wodonga and Albury were covered with water.

The Victorian Ministry held another long Cabinet meeting a few days ago. Among other business dealt with was the resignation by the Hon. R. Byrne of his portfolio as Treasurer. This had been tendered on the previous day, but owing to the absence of the Commissioner of Customs and the Attor-ney-General, was not finally dealt with. Those two gentlemen were, however, present yesterday, and the Cabinet meeting being a full one, considered the question, as also tne resignation of the Hon. I. G. Reeves, of his office as Commissioner of Public Works, which had been tendered under precisely the same conditions. The resolution arrived.at by the other members of the Administration was that the two resignations should be refused, on the ground that parliamentary vacancies wou'd soon occur, apd the opportunity of obtaining seats provided. It was held, we' believe, that out of rpapy precedents, that offered by the retention of office by the Hon. H. Miller of his portfolio in one of the M'Culloch Ministries, for some considerable period after he had lost his seat in the Uppor House, was one that justified the course now temporarily taken. Jhe opinion of the Cabinet appeared to bo that there was no immediate occasion for hurry in the acceptance of the two resignations, which are now held over for the present. When the Parliament met on the loch instant, the Ministerialists numbered 31, and the Opposition 40. Two Ministerialists and four opponents were absent. The Malta on her last trip took away over 136,000 ounces of gold and 150,000 sovereigns, the largest amount of precious metal that is ever believed to have been taken at one time.

Colonel Ward, deputy-master of the Victorian Mint, arrived by the Great Britain. Some time ago an accident happened' to a man up-country while at work with a circular saw. The saw broke, and a piece of wood struck the workman a severe blow on the eye, doing considerable injury. The man recovered his health, but an excrescence formed near the eye, which the local practitioner thought was a piece of diseased bone, and applied caustic to tho part without procuring any benefic al result. The man came to Melbourne, and went to the hospital, where an operation was performed yesterday. An incision was made, the forceps were inserted, and a piece of wood about five inches long, and thicker than an ordinary lead pencil, was extracted. It is. supposed that, after entering the face, it must have taken its course down the cheek. The patient is now progressing favorably, and will in a short time be able to resume his usual avocation:—Age. - -•- ■---

The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce has decided that a deputation of the member* shall wait upon the Government to advocate assistance in aid of Mr Fraser’s proposed line of telegraph to Batavia and England.