LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2545, 14 April 1871, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VICTORIA. Parliament is expected to meet on the 25th. Mr Wright, Secretary f r Railways, has been appointed Sheriff of Melbourne. It is expected that Captain Maemahon will be ap ointel Speaker of the now Assembly. Mr Duffy and Mr B. Ct. Davies oppose him. The steamer Barwon, from Adelaide to Sydney, with a cargo of wheat and flour, was wrecked on Capo Bridgewater last M onclay.' The passengers and crew were saved. The vessel was afterwards beached, and the bull sold at auction for L6O, and the cargo for L 35. There was a thick fog at the time of the disaster. William Macklin, brewer, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and uttering, and was sentenced to two years’ penal servitude. An iroucl.'.d, supposed to be the Cerberus, is reported to have been seen off Port M‘Donald. H.M.S. Blanche sailed for Sydney yesterday. The Russian corvette is still here. The Claud Hamilton is trading to Newcastle. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr Lloyd, a squatter, has recaptured a bushranger who had succeeded in escaping on a previous occasion. A petition with 10,000 signatures, praying for a dissolution, was presented to the Governor. His Excellency replied that he would refer it to his constitutional advisers.

Bertrand, who is in gaol charged with tiie murder of Kinder, is insane. A deckhouse found off Lord Howe Island has been identified as having belonged to the Douglas, which was wrecked on the Elizabeth Reef.

The Byron sighted a large steamer, supposed to be the Queen of the Thames, on the Ist March, in latitude 35 deer., longitude 97 deg. 39 min. She was sailing fast at the time.