LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3797, 26 April 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Eero, at Auckland.)

T, t- * , Melbourne, April 20. Beckers, a free selector, was murdered at ierrace by a neighbor named Merton, who had a quarrel with him, and stabbed him to the UCSiTti

South Melbourne lostthe Cup in the last cricket match There were 5,000 spectators present, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The scores of South Melbourne*, in their second inmngs were—Slight, 26; Cooper (1 b w first baU) 0; Blackham, 43; Allan, 36; Midwinter, 19 ; English ml; Conway, 13 ; M‘Gann Cnot out), 9; Heather, 1; Tinsley, 3; and WooJf, 2. The scores were-East Melbourne first mmngs 173, second 204; grand total 377. South Melbourne first innings 164, second 152’; grand total, 316. ’ Louisa Kingleman and Ah Katt were committed for tnal by a coroner’s juiy for the wilful murder of Ringleman’s husband. It is intended to found a permanent fund for the purpose of assisting shipwrecked seamen and widows of seamen.

A policeman has been committed for trial at Hotham for stealing a bottle of brandy from an hotel.

Tegola export for the year amounts to -J7j271 ozs, against *516,557 ozs ou tlio corresponding period of last year. The Mint charges have been reduced, and the sale rate for gold now paid is the same as by the Bank of England. I he captain of the Elloza, tho mail steamer, went mad on the voyage round from Sydney, and would insist on steering for Western Port as a short cut to Melbourne, Eventually, Oap-

tam Standish, who was a passenger, had him arrested and confined. Four revolvers were found in his possession. Madame Eastoul writes to the ‘ Argus’ that the reason her husband and the other Communists escaped was to make known to the world the treatment they received in New Caledonia, where, by a process of starvation, they were condemned to slow death. The Mikado arrived at San Francisco four days before her contract time. The Brisbane Marine Board attributes the loss of the Gothenburg in a great measure to the unexpected effect seawards, caused by heavy floods in the Hurdekiu and other rivers • and considers that due caution was not observed in navigating her, no attempt having apparently been made to sight Cape Bowling green light or Cape Upstart. At Adelaide, the Gothenburg fund has reached L 7,000.