AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3772, 27 March 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

m. D . ~ _ Mxlboubnb, March 20. The steamship Barham arrived here yesterGit°Rrite£ ht d t y * f v om P }y®outh, aJd the x? 1118 kter, Bixty-three tS* U -d 011 boftr< i ths latter ars the Rev. of Mslan«ua,»nd of 1 Leichtsnstem, for Dunedin. S i ,K mlan < i election resulted in ths return of K«aa by a large majority. O Ferral s trial, which was set down for yesterday, ismostponed to next sitting., i>k-r th -n W da l? mu ? der °*Be, the jury found Philip Dobell guilty of manslaughter, contrary to the Judges charge, whereupon Judge Fellowes only sentenced the prisoner to twentyfour hour* imprisonment, after which he was discharged. Calumny won the Kyneton Handicap comfortably. r Mr Ellery, the Government Astronomer, has-been entertained by the Royal and Medical Societies. The. Acting-Governor was present. ■ Gothenburg survivors have reached Melbourne. A large number of families nave been left totally unprovided for. A man was found with his throat cut in the Treasury Gardens. He stated -he was twenty ye s r ?i. S x^ n i at ? ldeat of in Queensland, and that he had recently come to the Colony year were ne «*J L1T,000,000, and the exports oyer L 16,000,000, this being L 140.000 over those of previous y@ArSi AU the families of those lost in the Gothenburg who are residents in and around Melbourne are, with two exceptions, left unprovided for. Professor Halford has received LSOO from the Victorian Government for the purpose of m xperiments with snake bite remedies. ■ The Hon. Mr Hastings, the Good Templar, has arrived in Melbourne from New Zealand. Private London telegrams report a rise of Id to 1M in the price of wooL The Cross of Chevalier (Italian order) has been conferred on Mr Earnest Gillies, the explorer. It is understood that at the meeting of Bank managers in Sydney, held for the consideration of the action taken by the Bank of New Zealand with regard to the money market, nothing definite resulted. , At a sale of racehorses in Melbourne, Newbold fetched 400 guineas, Jacob 200 guineas. Atalanta and Bill Sykes 180 guineas each. . . , , Adelaide, March 19. A telegram hat been received from Lewis, Ms leadereftke Lake Eyre Expedition, stating that he had been surrounded by Natives, but not molested. \ ■ _ s outh Australian Register’s caloulath« wheat harvest show there are H66,000 acres devoted to wheat growing, and that the produce will be 10,000,060 bushels. BUr P luB will be a shade over 200,000 tons.

..A *®P,°r c from the Mining Commissioner of New Caledonia states that at the Balade mine, m which South Australia is interested, 150,060 tons of nch copper is already in view. CABLE TELEGRAMS. . , London, March 16. meeting nos been held in London in reference to the establishment of a fortnightly mail service. A resolution in favor of the project was agreed to, and the Colonies are to he asked to co-operate. Sir Arthur Gordon has left Southampton to assume the Government of Fiji {From our own Correspondent*. ) , r „ Lawrknok, March 27. Mr Wilson Gray, District Judge, arrived here this morning, having come from Clyde by easy stages. He is in a very bad state of health, and groat foarg are entertained of his recovery. ... , Auckland. March 25. ihe remarkable George Thom bankruptcy case, which has occupied the Court so many months, was again called on to-day, Chief Justice Arney desiring for special reasons to get it terminated in view of his proposed retirement. Another wrangle between counsel ensued relative to the recounts. The Judge spoke of having his notes filled in and leaving the case as a learacy to his successor. He considered the bankrupt, had thwarted the Court by his form of presenting accounts. It was ultimately agreed that accounts should be filed in the present form, leaving the Bank of South Wales the opposing creditors, to take what action they choose afterwards. The case was then further adjourned. The ‘ Cross’s ’ reporter fell asleep during the bankruptcy sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday and was locked in, and woke when it uas getting dark. He scrambled on to the roof, threw sixpence to some children to get another reporter who liyed near, and ultimately the keeper of the building was brought and liberated the dismayed Bohemian. ... , , Auckland, March 26. Ihe victim of the outrage in Hobson street, one of the most frequented thoroughfares of the city, furnishes the following particulars of the occurrence. He was a passenger by the India, is named Thomas William Boulton, and is about nineteen years of age. When assailed iMt night he was walking along the footpath of the western side of the street, and did not observe any one in the vicinity until one of two men seized him, when he was thrown down on the footpath. One of them put his knees on his (Boultons) arms while his pockets were n “ e( J by others. Their object accomplished he’ was lifted over the fence into a paddock; before luting him over the fence one of the ruffians giving him a hard kick on the right side, a little below the axilla. From the blow and the rough treatment he received he was in a semi-con-scious state when he fell on to the ground on the inner side of the fence, but he was of opinion, from the sound of their receding footsteps, that they went up Hobson street towards Wellington or Pitt street. About ten minutes elapsed before he was sufficiently recovered to be able to climb over the fence and regam the street. While lying on the footpath he noticed both men wore long black masks, which came about a foot below their chins. Though be saw their eyes through the holes cut in their masks he would not be able to recognise them again. He says he has been threatened by two men for evidence given in the Police Court in a case connected with the ship, but owing to the long masks he could not recognise the assailants.