LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3432, 20 February 1874, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Albion.) T .. ... , Melbourne, February 14. It is likely that Parliament will not be prorogued till 12th March. r On the morning of the 9th, a small box containing an explosive compound was sent to Mr Maxwell Reynolds, who was in the act of opening it in the presence of his old partner, Mr English when it exploded, Reynolds was killed, and English injured. The police are endeavoring to trace the mystery. An inquest has been opened and adjourned. A boiler explosion has occurred at East Melbourne. No one was injured, but the buildings were shattered to rums. The City Corporation of Melbourne has adopted an address to the Duke pf Edinbnndi on his marriage. ' “ ■ The Buckley will case is proceeding. The Attorney-General, for the Crown, says be will prove the will to be a forgery, and that the claimant Maher forged it. Maher came from Wagga Wagga, . Sir 0. G. Duffy declined a demonstration in Sydney. He goes Home in April. -Professor mode of prepurincr a limb to prevent loss of blood during an opera, tion had a trial at the hospital, and Was very successful. * Madame Goddard leaves India by this month a mail for the Colonies, and afterwards visits California. Blondin has asked permission to perform in one of the public reserves in Melbourne, but it is unlikely that permission will be granted. Ihe Launceston riots are over. The Government decline to stay the collection of the railway rate. Strop won the Launceston Cup, and Blue Peter the Handicap. \ A Volunteer camp is to he held at Sunburv at Easter. . J In the cricket match, the English Eleven v. iwenty-two Bendigo local men, the latter scored 90 m the first and 165 in the second innings. The Eleven scored in their first innings 154, leaving them 102 to get to win. Play was resumed on the 15th, when the weather was very hot. A Victorian Government Gazettes contains a notice revoking the proclamation prohibiting the introduction of live stock from New Zealand. .. The Alfred Diifsk is now completed. H.M'S, JNelson is to be taken ill next week Another legal manager is missing from Sandhurst with defalcations. The Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill has passed through Committee of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, m mystery continues unsolved. Mr iodd, of Adelaide, asserts that Hume had not tune to do all he asserts, and pf-oots are adduced that he nevoCmct Warhurion’s barty.‘ Hume remains ifl at Brisbane. n *' •3 > - A girl baihed Uolenjah, wkile tending sheep near Tamworth, New Wales/^os ,tewec *•» *** * i wr f p fe tp tibtc napthr weathe during the recent heavy Advices from the Palmer river are satisfactory. The country is flooded, the wet season has set in, about 1,600 diggers are on the ground, and nearly as many more en route. Provisions are frightfully dear, and no meat, fresh or preserved, is to be obtained. The blacks are very troublesome at Gilbert, ihe telegraph station was invested and barricaded, but no firearms are obtainable.