LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2504, 24 February 1871, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika, February 23. The Rang! to to left Melbourne at i a,in. on the 17th, and arrived at Hokitika at 6.30 a.in. on the 23rd. Experienced easterly weather all the pas-

sage. Passenger List.—For Wellington : Mr Daly, Mrs Robertson, Mr T. F. Cash, and Master Henry Reid. For Lyttelton ; Mr George A. Macquarie and Mrs M‘Donald. For Dunedin : Mr James Smith, Mr and Mrs Robert Harper ; and 40 in the steerage for all ports. Cargo. —For Nelson, 46 tons; Wellington. 50 tons ; Lyttelton, 32 tons ; Dunedin, 40 tons ; Picton, 5 tons. Mlehourne, February 17.

The elections are causing great excitement. Twenty-six out of twentynine old members have been elected. The majority of members returned are not Ministerialists.

Wilmot, late railway station master at Keilor, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling Government money. The popularity of Chang, the Chinese giant, continues. Mr Fisher repurchased his stud horse Angler, and intends sending him to England as a specimen of the Victo-rian-breed horse.

A man named McDonald received fifty lashes for garottiug. The punishment was very severe. Commercial.—Trade parcels of Victorian flour move slowly at LI 4 to LI4 ss; Adelaide (country brands), same range. Wheat quotations, 6s to Gs Id, difficult of sale. New Zealand oats are unnoticed at 3s Bd.

Sydney. Fresh cases of kidnapping have occurred at the New Hebrides. A clerk in the Land Office has absconded with L2OOO. He is supposed to have gone to Fiji Maber, the Bushranger, has been committed for tidal for robbery of the mail under arms.

A cargo of pearl shells from Torres Straits realised LI 4,000. A new goldfield has been discovered 27 miles from Forbes. The sinking is 27 feet, the gold coarse and nuggetty. The steamer Duly Young was wrecked on a voyage from Brisbane. The passengers were saved. One million two hundred and twenty thousand sovereigns were issued from the Sydney mint last year. Lawlessness is reported to be spreading at Fiji, Adelaide.

The Rev. Mr Haining, for thirty year’s resident and the first Presbyterian minister here, has retired, Wheat is firm at 4s 9d to 4s 9Jd.

A private telegram from London quotes New Zealand wheat at 58s per quarter. Hobart Town. Sailed—Jane, for Nelson.

At the Church of England Synod a motion was asked for a select committee to enquire into a claim by ex-Archdeacon Reiby. Launceston Steeplechase—Narciss, 1; Tamar, 2. Handicap—Little Dick, 1.