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Evening Star, Issue 3483, 22 April 1874, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

, Brisbane, .Umcial telegrams from Cooktown state that several score of miners rushed the steamer for free passages. The police were required to clear the ship, and about three score assaulted the police. An excited mob, numbering 1,000, watched the affray from the shore. They rushed aboard and unshipped the staging, then cut off the shore from communication. After a struggle, three ringleaders were arrested and order restored. . "I'bere has been heavy rain during the last eight days. The creeks were flooded, and the roads will be unfit for traffic for some time. A nugget, weighing 7ozs., was obtained from Chinamen at Charleston. Melbourne. A woman, whose name is unknown, jumped off Prince’s Bridge and was drowned. Mr Todd had an interview with the Treasurer in reference to the reduction of cable charges.

The Government is favorable to the proposition. Robert Hamilton, many years clerk of the course at Flemington, died to-day from an overdose of laudanum.

. Wiley and Nelson, two of the Satsuma mutineers, were brought before the Court to-day. They confessed their guilt, and said the men made the mate drunk and tied him down, and threw all the rifles and firearms overboard. Only five of the men went into boat. A Mr Ivett has committed suicide by laying J*G&d on tho railway line. The train cut his head in two. Buyers of wheat offer 6s—holders ask a penny more. The following official telegram has been re ceived by the Colonial Secretary from the Queensland Government:—Telegram from the Police Magistrate at Cooktown states—“ Please make public, with a view, if possible, to stopping the present rush. There have been three day’s rain, almost without intermission.

With such rain the people in Cooktown (nearly four thousand) can never get on nor back. The weather prevents those determined to reach the Palmer from going, and want of money many who would rather return south. The Government will try by every means to stop people from coming here and crowding into the place. They will do nothing which they cannot get out of. There are more people here than the circumstances justify.