AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3777, 2 April 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mrcusomuni, Maveh 2T. - notwithstanding all apparent precautions, and the new and. vigorous system. twenty leading Communists, headed by Dr Kastoui, have managed to escape from New Caledonia in a_boat of their own building, and they are AofW all search being unavailing. The Maegregor, with the Californian mails; i cached San Francisco on the 20th. . “U bPP® of hearing further news of the Gothenburg Is abandoned. The fuud raised in Melbourne and Adelaide amounts in the aggregate to about L 7,000, for which there are numerous applicants. - P aTne d Martin, at Launceston, receutly fabricated the story of the wreck of the barque Colino, from London to Sydney, on iLing a Island, end alleged he was the steward of tna ship. No vessel of suoh % nwnfr wig proved to be ooming to Sydney. -A cast of some interest—Cameron v.D. A Hughes—for the recovery of money lent in connection with starting the newspapers ‘ Bxpnese’ and Town and Country,’ resulted in a verdict for plaintiff.

a During the regatta on Saturday, Miss Perry, ht %, of , Ca P^ ia ***** Williams town, lost her life by a buggy- accident. ' . . By the couision of a ballast train with a trolly on the North-eastern Railway three lives were lost.

Blondin left for Europe by the mail steamer A ... SlDtfut. * "“““ernbhng of Parliameht, Mr G. W. Allen, Minister of Justice in the Parkas Administration, was elected speaker in opposition to Mr Wisdom, but he has resigned, as the of, the., election has been questioned, ihe Government promised to amend the Land and Education Acts and to modify the tariff. A and Philadelphia Exhibition. Sir J. G. T«« on was elected Chairman of Committees in the Council, and Mr Driver in the Assembly, _ Eight hundred Chinese have been landed at Cooktewu en route to the Palmer, and 3,000 more are atKpngKoug awaiting transit to the Colonies, principally for Gooktowa end Townsville.

Gunboats are searching.for the escaped Communists, but no tidings of them have been rreoeirecL

. There : have been incessant rains and heavy gales on the Queensland coast. The Brisbane Government hare awarded MalUgan LI,OOO for the discovery of the Palmer goldfield.