LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3678, 5 December 1874, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] Port Chalmers, December 5. The following items are culled from our files per Easby : Melbourne, November 26. The Governor visited the Kyneton Agricultural Show to-day. The Mining oti Private Property Bill passed through the Assembly last night, after a slight discussion, and the vote for charities amounting to L 120.000 was agreed to. This completes the Estimates. A radical defect is found in the Education Act, rendering the compulsory clauses inoperative. A full Court decided that the onus lies with the Crown to prove the age of children not attending the schools ; an Amending Act will, therefore, be necessary. Mr Forrest, the explorer, visited several of the public places of the city, and has been entertained by the citizens. A rule i/iai has been granted for a new trial in Casey y. Chandler. In Mitchell v, Mitchell, an action for maintenance, the Judge dismissed the appeal, and confirmed the life's allowance. The following are the results of the Bendigo Races Hurdle Race—lnquisitive, 1; Lantern, 2. Flying Handicap—Polidori. 1 ; Stockbridge, 2. Time, Imin 20sec. Only three started. Bendigo Handicap—lmperial, 1; King Tom, 2; Fugleman, 3. Time, 3min 13-jsec. A protest against the winner was dismissed. L 31.000 of the Western Australian Loan has been subscribed at from par to 2s fid premium. The remaining L 19,000 is likely to be taken at par. Last night, outside the Heads, the s.s. Wentworth had a narrow escape of collision with another steamer. Tenders were received to-day for forty miles of the Gippsland Railway, between Thorwell and Sale. The lowest was from Messrs Miller and James for L 127.500. The Government has decided to release Butchart. The weather is very squally and unsettled. Hobart Town (via Melbourne.) The ball given to his Excellency the Governor . was an immense success. The Town Hall was crowded. To-day, the Governor and the Minis- , ters had a trial trip by railway twenty miles. The engineering works wore considered to be satisfactory. To-night, his Excellency and a 1 large party ppe invited on board the American ship Swatara. The Governor will leave by the Tasman on Saturday. Adelaide, Thursday, 1 A London telegram received yesterday states that Mr John Gowling, emigration lecturer. ; died in England from colic, after thirteen days’ illness. The Adelaide-Burra Railway is delayed by reason of the swarms of locusts on the line. The ground all round about Burra is covered ivith locusts. ,' pricket match between officers of the 1 Barra.9o.9ta apd South Australians, resulted in an .easy victory for the latter. The naval engagement is pgstpgn.ed, owing to the rough 1 weather. ' r ' , The Minister of Justice advocates 5, system . of domestic education for females, v Brisbane, November 27, , The escort from Etheridge reached Cardwell ; with 12,0000z5. of gold, and that from Charters Towers reached Townsville with 3,0000z5. ( COMMERCIAL. , Adelaide.— Cornsacks sold at lls 3d ; new wheat, 4s fid. Two thousand tons of new flour j fpr delivery in the next six months, sold at i varying from LlO 3s to Lll 2s fid per ton. ; Melbourne, iloyetpber 29.—Wheat, 5s 7d to os lOd ; flour is up ig LJ.3. Large business was done to-day. There have been y ery .considerable • sales of Hennessey’s brandy at 7s fld • of .5,(000 boxes of Brandon’s candles, for export, fldin bond; of 5,000 tons^ West India sugar, apd . large sales of Mauritius at 15s advance, owing to a Mauritius telegram which stated there were no inquiries for the Colonies but large business for Europe and Bombay. The market is very 1 / firm. Shipments of new crop to the Colonies, j 5,000 tons against 14,000 last year.