LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3439, 28 February 1874, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

_ , , , , Melbourne, February 21. nr j date . tbe dissolution is to be decided on Monday. A number of candidates are announcing themselves in the various constituencies. A testimonial is being raised to Bishop Perry, on his departure for Europe after a twenty-eight years’ episcopate. The inquest on the death of the late Mr Reynolds has been again adjoirned. The detectives believe they have some clue as to who sent the box containing the explosive compound. The Buckley will case is concluded so far as witnesses for the Crown are concerned. The Attorney-General undertook to show the will was a forgery, and that the claimant, Maher, forged it. The evidence goes a great wav to support that view. The Nelson is to be docked on Friday next, and will be the first vessel taken into the Alfred Dock. The Stock Exchange has been dissolved. Negotiations are still proceeding between the Victorian and South Australian Governments mjj reduc^on the cable messages. Mr lodd, Postmaster-General of Adelaide, suggests ten words for L 3, and 5s per each additional word. The will of the late William Robertson, squatter, hes been proved at L 294.000. A meeting has been held to form a settlement in New Guinea. Several cases of drowning are reported, and two cases of attempted suicide. Hume’s relics of Leichardt is all a shaimand he has in reality nothing. The whole affair is a barefaced imposture. The gold returns show a falling off. The population at the Palmer River is 2,000. are ver y scarce, and the rivers hooded and impassable. deacf loely ’ amember of the Upper House, is ,n, ~, ~, . Tasmania. boder 0 f the nver steamer Little Nell exploded, and eight lives were. lost. Three others who were on board were seriously injured. Ihe steamer was running between Launceston and Georgetown. Major Warhurton and party reaped Western Australia safely, having travelled overland from South Australia, and passed over 900 miles of unexplored country. They arrived without provisions, and had eaten all the camels but three. No further particulars are to hand.