LATEST MELBOURNE NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3376, 15 December 1873, Page 3

LATEST MELBOURNE NEWS.

{From Sydney Papers.) An important point in insurancclawhas been raised in the Victorian Supreme Court. It is whether the insurers are liable if a fire occurs during the days of grace, and before the insurer has tendered his premium. Judgment is reserved. Bickerings, having reference to the appoint meat of the Victorian players against the English eleven, have led to tiie resignation of Mr Hammersley, who had been a member of the match committee. Correspondence relative to the vessel Osprey, carried on in the Ballarat papers, has shown that only two vessels of that name ever came to this port, and that neither traded round Capo Horn. Captain Trouton commanded one. A new trial in Huberts v. Hadden has been granted. A London telegram states that in consequence of the rice famine in India there will probably be a prohibition of exportation. Rice lias advanced 3s per cwt. in London. A further telegram states that there has been a considerable advance in whisky—nearly 50 per cent. The Judges of the Supreme Court have granted a rule nisi compelling a magistrate to hear a charge of cruelty preferred against Mr Hector Wilson, for hunting a kangaroo dog with hounds. The magistrate held that he had no jurisdiction. The Government are making inquiries into the atrocities alleged by a contributor of the “ Telegraph” to have been committed on the South Seas by a vessel supposed to be the Daphne. It is said that the particulars of these outrages were communicated to Commodore Sterling, who alleged that he could not see his way clear to take action, because there was only black evidence available. The contributor “ Outis” no longer signs in that name, but in his own, namely, “L. Fison,” The Daphne i« essentially a Melbourne vessel. The captain and supercargo, members of two of the leading families in Victoria, are charged with murder, rape, and kidnapping.