BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3240, 9 July 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

UNPUBLISHED AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, July 3. The New Zealand loan continues to move off slowly at L9l. The coal, iron, and plumbago mines at Butter and Collingwood begin to attract attention here, but reliable details are wanting. The three grand marriages, in which each sister is supposed to be dowered with L 30.000, have been indefinitely postponed. The Ministerial position is assured. A collision is probable between the judicature and the Government rc the Stawell jumping cases. Oats at auction to-day brought 4s 8d to ss. Adelaide, A Wesleyan mission is projected to Port Darwin, The City of Adelaide has arrived from London with eighty-two assisted immigrants. Wheat is quiet and unaltered. The Adelaide Government will continue a branch service to the (Sound, if Victoria asks too much for galling at Glenelg. ' SyDNEV. It is rumored that an expedition will be equipped to prospect Now Guinea. AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, July 3. The lights have arrived for a pile lighthouse at Arthur’s Seat. A rule nisi has been granted for new trials in Degraves v. M‘Mullen, and Smith’s divorce case. The government arc prosecuting the two trustees under tljc will of one Jacobs, who misappropriated L 4,000. Jacobs’s children have been committed to the Industrial School as neglected children. Sir George Boweu is being fHed at Geelong. The Capo route is being discussed. A University Exhibition has been established for engineering. Gibson, the accountant of the National Bank, has been committed for trial. The movement at Adelaide to tap the wool traffic by a railway frobi Adelaide to Mamum, is encouraged by Riverina. Puerperal fever continues to make severe ravages. 1 The ironmoulders’ stride continues. A branch of the Anglo.-jew jsh Association has been formed at Melbourne, Country flour at auction fetched Ll3 17s (id ; feeding grains are easier. _ Sydney. The Basilisk’s seamen are showing gold in quartz, brought from New Guinea, Krauss, steward of the Rifleman, has been hanged. He fainted on the scaffold. The barque Queensland, from Newcastle Co Dunedin, put into Jervis Bay leaky. The mail advices are unsatisfactory to Holders. t i The Newcastle miners have withdrawn their notice to strike,

Adelaide. The Loch Awe’s Wheat charter has been cancelled. Trial surveys have been ordered for a railway to the Murray. A prospectus has been issued for working the Seymour coal mine. Tasmania. Wheat is inactive at 6s 2d to 6s 3d; flour, Ll4 to Ll4 10s. Port Darwin. Cartage to the mines is LIOO a ton. Hobart Town. The Treasurer announces a surplus of 1.6,000 for the. current year. Cjiristchuch, July 0. The Otago immigrants per Edwin Fox, who have been in quarantine, leave by the Maori to-uight. Auckland, July 9. Sarah Ann Bell, for stealing a letter containing Ll2O, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. When sentence was passed, she swooned away, and her life is in danger. Wellington, July 8, A deputation from the Grey Coal Company has completed arrangements with the Government to lease the coal reserves at the Grey River, the Company to have the right to select 1,000 acres of the coal reserve within twelve months ; the rent to be L2O per year, and the lease for twenty-one years, with the right of renewal for a further similar period if terms cau be agreed upon. The Company also has the right to purchase 150 acres iu b'oeks of not leas than ten, and not exceeding thirty acres each ; a royalty of 2s 6d per ton, only, being chargeable upon such coal as is sent by river. TUe locomotives, rails, and rolling stock for the Brunner line were shipped iu May. The whole work is expected to be completed within eighteen months. The deputation is working energetically. The Supreme Court opened to-day. Judge Johnston, in charging the jury, referred to the light calendar. He was glad to notice the symptoms of returning prosperity in Auckland. He trusted that immigrants would be more carefully selected, so as to prevent any accession to the criminal classes. He referred to the importance of providing educational reforms in prisons. The present system was inefficient for our requixements. The Luna, on her return from Wanganui, will proceed to the Manukau to bring down the Auckland members of the Assembly. The Education Board is vigorously enforcing the rates. Tho Governor’s College have resolved to empower Dr Vaughan, of London, to select a principal, who is to have the general acquirements of a layman, without exclusive mathematical or classical attainments.

Christchurch, July 8. A public meeting was held at Akaroa, on the 17th inst,, to consider the best moans for obtaining railway communication with Christchurch, so as to utilise Akaroa harbor. > Public libraries are being established in various parts of the country under the vote of L 5.000 of the Provincial Council of the last session. At the Supreme Court sitting to-day, James Charles Field Lawrence pleaded guilty to four charges of embezzlement, and to one of forgery. Sentence was deferred. In Regina v. O’Keefe, for obtaining money under false pretences, the sentence was eighteen months’ hard labor. In this case the Judge commented severely upon the facility with which storekeepers changed cheques for anyone. In this case the storekeeper had changed a cheque for a man without even knowing his name. He frequently remarked upon it from the Bench, but it had no effect; and he wished that he had power to punish storekeepers for tho enormous expense they inflicted on the country by such prosecutions. In the case of Regina v. Adam, for larceny as a bailee, the (risoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. In Eegina v. Pilcher, a case of indecent assault, prisoner was sentenced to six months’ penal servitude. In Regina v. Palmer, for assault, prisoner was sentenced to three months’. The Court sits to-morrow, to pass sentence on Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to three charges of embezzlement and one of forgery. The remainder of the City Loan of L 6,000, for drainage purposes, has been taken up at pai. At the inquest on the body of a man found dead at Waiau, under presumably suspicious circumstances, the jury returned a verdict of death by exposure. The excitement respecting the opening of the Museum on Sundays continues. The first meeting of the New Trustees takes place to-day. Mr Fairclough, the tragedian, opens tonight with a .dramatic recital. The Canterbury Sale Yards Company’s prospectus is issued ; capital, L 6,000, in 1,20 ) shares of L 5 each. It is proposed to to erect yards in tho vicinity of the city. Mr R. M. Morton’s thorough-bred mare Barbary died last night.

Auckland, July 8. Six hundred shares in the New Zealand Shipping Company have been subscribed here. More are expected to be taken up. The solicitor of Messrs Bass and Co., tho brewers, is prosecuting publicans for selling spurious imitations of their brands. Mr Saunders quotes ; Buyers of Caledonians at 345s ; Tookeys, 165s ; Waitematas, 6s 6d ; Bismarcks, 30s. Gkaha>(§town, July 8. The Bank of New Zealand h'as shipped for Auckland 8,344 ounces of gold,