AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2618, 8 July 1871, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

As a proof of the prosperity of Sandhurst, the Bendigo Independent gives the following : —“Large as were the dividends last week, they are totally eclipsed by those on Monday morning, which amount to between LI 1,000 and L 12,000. The appearance of the streets on Saturday night was very significant. Unpleasant as the evening was, they were crammed with an ever-moving throng, and the storekeepers must have done a tremendous business. The bank windows, as usual, were great centres of attraction and no wonder. Though the calls are very heavy this week, they are overtopped by the dividends t« the amount of nearly L 7,000.

The Argus reports the occurrence of a insular incident at the Emerald Hill Police ourt. A man and wife entered the clerk’s office to take out summonses against each other. On the wife putting down on the table a half-crown to pay for her summons, the husband took the money up, and refused to return it. The clerk declined to let the wife have the summons until he got his fee, whereupon she locked the door, and kept the whole party incarcerated for two hours and a half. At the end of that time the clerk gave up the summons, and the determined woman brought forth the key and opened the door.

An Imperial despatch, received by the last mail, expi esses the opinion that the liberation of Rangi and Captain Ho veil, who were convicted of mnrdering several Polynesians on board their vessel in the South Sea, was unwarranted. In reply to this, the N.S. Wales Government sent a despatch by the outgoing mail stating that the S cretary of State’s interference in the administration of criminal justice was not considered regular orexpediont, and justifies Captain Hovell’s release on the ground that the conviction was either erroneous or based on insufficient evidence.

The new Sydney sovereign is thus described by the Sydney Mo'ning II raid : “As our readers are aware, there has been an alter ition in the design of the sovereign coined at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, by which it is assimilated to the English coin of the same kind. A specimen of this altered coin has been brought under our notice, and its alloy being copper, there is a marked difference between the color of that and the coin of the older date. On the reverse, instead of the garland and the word * Australia,’ we have now the English coat of arms, and in the joining stems of the wreath suprounding it a very small letter S, which signifies that it has been coined in Sydney.’’ Mr Shafto Robertson, a tragedian of repute, and brother of the late Mr T. Wi Robertson, author of “ Caste,” “ Ours,” and other dramas, has arrived at Melbourne in the ship Melmerhy, from London. Mr Robertson is under engagement to Mr Goo. Coppiu.