AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3466, 1 April 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Claud SamUtm.)

m , . , Melbourne, March 25. . Tbeelecfcions aud the probable result to the Ministry are the principal topics of converseturn * but although the polling for the first batch of elections is taking place to-day, very little real or earnest interest is being shown, ihe feeling against raising a quarrel with the upper House pn an abstract question is strong in many quarters, and it is pot unlikely that a majority will be found against the Government on this question.. Several Ministers have addressed their constituents. The polling for the Melbourne constituencies will not take place until April 2J. The population of the Colony on 31st December was 79J.488 The Government contemplate prosecuting Mahar for forgery and perjury in connection with the Buckley will case. The libel action Walker v. George, publisher of the Australasian/ in reference to pulling the horse Marquis of Lome in a steeplechase at j e rinn’ resoltod in a verdict for the plaintiff for L3OO damages. The verdict is much commented on. It is likely an application for a new tnal will be made. 1 J'S CoUrt gave Segment fqr the dsfen--1 it “ D^ ves J* M‘Mullen, Inspector qf the Union Bank, where the jury had previously awarded Mr Degraves LIO.OOO. K 7 soapier CyphTeues, after discharging go, sailed for Sydney, ske is superior to the Macgregor, but inferior to the Tartar. F92S Zea hare been sold at

English cricketers played their concluding match against twenty-two of Yorke’s Peninsula, • ono *md nine rune. The aoom w^ra—Peninsula, 43 and 13; the Eleven,

Greenwood and Japp being the only men who obtained double figures. ‘Tbe'Englishmen leave' for Adelaide by the mail on Saturday; - : Mr Foster, spirit medium from California/ has given seances, but they were not very sue-, ccssfuL Miss Juno and Mr George Ireland leave the Australian stago and proceed to [England. Signora Palmiera, the new prima donna, is scarcely up to expectations. A collision occurred between two goods trains at the Castlemaiue station on Monday evenmg. No one was injured, but three trucks and an engine were damaged. The representative of a London and Melbas absconded to California. His liabilities are heavy. One bank loses L 6,000. victor, the gymnast and Lottie’s husband, was drowned in a waterhole, while bathing at Benalla yesterday. The Garrison Artillery proceeded to the camp at Sunbury to-day. The Volunteers encamp next week. Heavy rains have fallen. . Sydney. The agent for Siemen Bros, has submitted to the Government an offer to lay. a cable to New Zealand. The representative of the Torres Strait line has offered to make Sydney the permanent terminus if subsidised. The Government will not prorogue Parliament More passingtlie Electoral Bill. jfbere is encouraging news from the Palmer f Oldfields, Several reefs have been discovered, revisions are very scarce, and large numbers of miners continue to arrive. Several deaths have occurred through dysentery. The blacks ftre very troublesome on the road.