AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2557, 28 April 1871, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(From the Australasian.) The voyage of the Cerberus, which occupied 145 days, was a perilous one, regard being bad to the peculiar construction of the vessel the ominous fate of the “ Captain,” the distance which had to be run, the novelty, of the experiment, and the extreme difficulty which was experienced in inducing competent seamen to embark in her. Its successful issue reflects the highest credit upon Captain Pauter, and has obtained for him the well-deserved thanks of our local Government and the warm encomiums of the press and public. After passing through the Suez Caual, the Cerberus steamed along the coast of Arabia, and was carried to Gallo by tho H. R. monsoon. Nanowly escaping a cyclone she steamed clown the west coast of Australia, and put into Fremantle for coal. Three days sufficed to bring her to King George’s Sound, and, after a stay of eight days at that station, she steamed along the great Australian Bight, and was sighted off Cape Otway on Easter Eve. From the Fiji news received by telegram from Sydney, it will be seen that Mr, Baillie, late of Baillie and Butter’s, has been murdered by his partner Scott. Ale. Baillie has a large number of friends in Melbourne, by whom his melancholy and cruel death will bo deeply regretted. It would appear he must have been brutally murdered m his sleep, and that the assassin then decamped with all the valuables he could secure. Mr. Baillie

leaves a wife and one daughter. His life was insured in the Australasian Life Insurance Company for LI,1)00, hut after paying Jus debts it is not nrobable that more than LSOO will be left for his family. Parliament meets ou the 2.3rd, and its first business wi 1 be the election of a new speaker, as Sir Francis Murphy, who has occupied the chair ever since the Legislative Assembly was called into existence, is on longer a member of the House. The general impression seems to be the Captain Mac* Mahon will secure the coveted honour. Mr. M : chie, who was also unsuccessful moV arnica seat, resigns the Attorney * iencralsmp, it is said, and will he succeeded by Mr. Wrixon, the present Solicitor-General. Berlin Diggings, famed for its mi-gels, turned out one on the 20th uiat which weighed 7950z5. It was found by Chinamen, and is valued at L3OlK*. The great single wicket match-Sydney v. Victoria—was won by th ■ former a ter . close contest. The scores were-*. hj. M ales, 51; Victoria,-19. , , . Mr Howe’s engagement at the LU -tie Royal came to an end on the Bth, and on the 10th a one-legged dancer, bills as Don .to the one-legge A, made his hrsb annea-ance. He has not achieved a marked success, thou eh the and ence applaud hj m a good deal for keeping up so long on his re* a farewell concert to Mr Horsley at the Town Hall. Mr Horsley leaves for the United States in the course «f next month, and will thence proceed to England. l have been received from Mr Walter Montcom ry, fn m win hj it appears not unlike y that he will comply with a very generally expressed desire for him to return to this Colony. Mr George Dotterel has just rcturne I overland from Adelaide, where lus more than clever perfonnauc.s have rendered him a great favorite.