AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 2901, 6 June 1872, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The Adelaide Assembly has expressed an opinion that a small tax should be imposed upon sheep coming into the Colony from New South Wales.

A meeting is to be held in Melbourne to provide means for the relief of the sufferers from the famine iii Persia. The Hebrew portion of the population have been the first movers in the matter.

The Government statistician says that the proposed grant to the Australian Trans-Con-tinental Railway is equal to a road 156 miles wide right across the continent, Tnistworthy information has been received that English capitalists are prepared to support the°trans-contiuental railway scheme.

During the last ten years the increase in the population ©f New South Wales was 13 per cent, greater than that of Victoria. In New South Wales the population between the ages of 30 and 35 increased by 29,235 persons, whilst the population of Victoria between the ages of 21 and 35 decreased by 42,766 persons. Telegrams from Brisbane in the late Melbourne papers state that the deadlock in the Legislature still continues. The Opposition have memorialised the Governor on the subject, throwing the whole blame on the Ministry. The Governor, however, does not sympathise with them in their view of the case, and in reply showed that the position they had taken up was untenable. The Victorian newspapers (says fcbe A iyiff) collected by the trustees of the Public Library for transmission to the London International Exhibition, have been handsomely bound together in the form of a book. The binding is of red morrocco, lined with blue moire antique, and decorated with elaborate gilt ornamentations. The journals will be forwarded by the out-going mail.

A special meeting of the Carpenters Society was held lately in the "trades Hall, Melbourne, to consider a circular received from Mr Newberry, secretary of the Industrial aud Technological Museum, intimating the intention of the directors to establish classes in mechanics, mathematics, and practical geometry, in addition to the classes already formed. After some discussion, the following resolution was carried ; " That this society give all the assistance it can to the Technological Commissioners in furtherance of their very laudable object, and that the secretary be instructed to forward a copy of the suggestions aud this resolution to Mr J. Cosmo Newberry.”

A Sydney telegram, dated the 21st May, states that “ the trial of Nicholls and Lester lor the Paramatta Liver murdci s was linished at half-past seven o’clock to-night. The jury retired for a short time, and returned into court with a verdict of guilty. The judge asked the prisoners what they had to say before sentence was passed upon them. Nicholls commenced to speak, but immediately fainted. Leiter then fainted also Nicholls had to be held up by the police while sentence of death was passed upon him. Lester cried bitterly, and handed in a written statement denying killing either of them; that Nicholls killed them both ; that he fired at Bridges, and then hammered him on the head with a pistol.”

There appear to bo some good claims at the Lyell. A twelve-days’ crushing from oue yielded the owners LSG a man. A oneeighth share in this claim recently changed hands for LIOOO, and a parcel of thirty scrip found a purchaser at Nelson for LISOO.