LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3422, 9 February 1874, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Mikado.) The s.s. Tartar, after discharging her cargo of sugar, rice, &c., at Melbourne, will sail for Sydney on the 4th or sth. Five tons more of tobacco have been stopped Alexander Todd, Union Bank teller, has pleaded guilty of embezzlement, and is remanded for sentence. A seaman of the Ellora has been found guilty of stabbing, and is remanded for sentence. M'Callmn Mohr, Ace of Trumps, and Sir Hercules have advanced in the betting for the Geelong Handicap. The banquet to the officers of the Pera at Adelaide was a success. Captain Methven made a good speech. He declared that the danger m calling at Glenolg was not so great as m calling at Nepean Bay. The South Australian Treasury is repaying principal and interest on account of the NorthernjTerntory land orders to English and Colonial holders. A claim of the North Australian Company to between L 35,000 and L 40.000 is expected shortly. The Langlands Foundry Companyreport that they lost last year on Government contracts no less a sum than L 7,000. banquet, on January 31, at Mansfield, the Victorian Minister for Railways said that it was the intention of the Government, as far os might be practicable, to connect all important outlying districts .with the main lines of the Colony.

The Tartar came up Hobson’s Bay on the morning of Feb. 1, after a fine passage of 25 days from Hong Kong. She is commanded by Captain berries. She is 300 ft. long, 37ft. H1 ’ tons register, and has engines of 400-horse power. Her saloon accommodation is commodious for about 50 passengers. The well-known racehorse Don Juan lias died suddenly. Its death is believed to have been c<i rusod by an old complaint. The horse was suffering before the Cup race. A post mortem is ordered. The Essex, outward-bound for London, col* i, Wlth the barque Palace, at anchor at Melbourne Hoads, bound for Newcastle. Both vessels are damaged; the latter has returned te the Bay for repairs. The Yarra and Surprise, schooners, coal-lnden, bound for Sydney, were both wrecked on the North Beac'j, Newcastle, on February 1. The crew of the Yarra came safely ashore in their boats, but the crew of the Surprise had a narrow escape of their lives. The mortar apparatus missed the vessel, and the crew then took to thoir boat, which capsized in the heavy surf, throwing the occupants, six in number, into the sea. With the assistance of those from the shore five were at once picked up in an exhausted condition. The missing one, a boy was found drifting along -with the breakers! and, with the assistance of Messrs Stokes and Holt, was brought ashore in an almost lifeless condition, but was ultimately brought round. Both vessels broke up within an hour: the debris is strewed along the beach. The rush of produce across to Victoria is amazing. It is gleaned from various sources tiicit the trade across the Bodrcr since the openmg of the railway to Wodonga, to February 1, was follows November, 1,060 bales wool, 490 bags flour, 100 bags wheat; December, 4,160 bales wool, . 770 bags flour, 471 bags wheat; January, 1,340 bales wool, 2,285 bags flour, 8,300 bags wheat, 500 casks wine, tobacco (manufactured and unmanufactured), about 450 packages. Special trains are running to meet the demand ; yet every available place in Wodonga is used for storage. The bridge tolls have trebled. The amount of the past week’s return of merchandise from Victoria is not over the usual trade. Wheat fell this week from 5s 6d to 4s 6d. A Sydney telegram in the Melbourne paper states that a detective sent from Auckland to Tahiti after the absconding insolvent Treen, hus been committed by the French authorities for attempting to shoot Treen, Messrs J. B. Watt and J. L. Montefiore have been appointed local directors in Sydney of the Californian mail line.