AUSTRALIA.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2354, 18 October 1870, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

We have not room tor the whole of the Australian telegrams to hand by the Alhambra, but find space for the following The great nugget found at Berlin is valued at LfUDG. A movement is being made in Australia to establish a General Belief Fund for the sufferers through the war, without reference to nationality. The French Consul at Ade laidc, announces that lie will receive and forward subscriptions for the French sufferers, and it’ is stated the Lf idprCpe} will assist at an entertainment for their relief. Mr Collie, agent for Mr Webb, the wellknown shipowner, has sailed for Brisbane, for the purpose of ascertaining the views of the Queensland Government re-pa ting the Californian mail route, and what support they would be disposed to give to a line of large steamers capable of performing the service between Australia and California in gQ days,. The captains and agents of i-lp'oc Nprth German vessels, now in the port of Sydney, have decided to lay them up pending further war news. The South Australian Government defence arrangements provide for a military for.o of b'i.'l men, 2 MoucriolF gun carriages, and a gun platform. Nothing is said about the Volunteer corps. Mr Henry Hopkins, of Hobart Town, died last night at the advanced ago of 84. The deceased gentleman was well-known to a

wide circle of friends in the different colonies, and his large contributions to churches and schools, both here and in Australia, will make his name long remembered. A small salmon was caught at New Norfolk yesterday. Advices from Western Australia state that Captain Watson, formerly of the brig Layard, was lost iu the bush whilst coming overland from Swan River to King George’s Sound to catch the mail steamer, and no trace of him has yet been found. The Anglo-Australian Telegraph Bill which the English directors of the company wish the South Australian Government to pass sets forth that the line shall be completed by the 31st December, 1871, under a penalty of L7O p_r day. provides for a grant from the Government of all necessary lands for stations, ami that the charges for messages on the land line shall not exceed the rate per mile, which shall then be the average rate charged in ew South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is asserted upon excellent authority (says a Melbourne paper) that Lonis Napoleon owns no less than L 22,009,000 sterling, and that be is actually the largest hold er of Australian securities iu the world ! It is quite possible, and no small compliment to Australia. Mr Charles Matthews seems to be making the most of bis time in Adelaide. A telegram in the Melboums papers state that on a recent evening he appeared in three different pieces at the Theatre Royal, and was afterwards entertained by the members of the Un on Club. In reply tp the toast, “ The Guest of the Evening,” Mr Matthew? made a most felicitoias speech. A pretty goo 1 night’s work this for a gentleman who must be nearly seventy years of age. Captain Standish has issued a circular to one hundred of the applicants for places in tho police force, stating the determination of the Government to raise from among them a force of eighty men in connection with the defences. Toey are to re si le and mess in barracks, be trained in infantry and artillery drill, and employed in mounting guard and garrison duty. They will receive provisions and uniform, and 2s per day. A .laboring man at Creswick, named Glcnny, in the employ of D. Brown, contractor, received news by the last mail that, through the decease of a near relative iu Scotland, he was heir to LlOOl) cash, and a considerable interest in a private dock in Glasgow, bringing in the nice trifle of something like L 20,009 a year.