LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3817, 19 May 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Alhcmhra at Hokitika.)

, , Melbourne, May 13. Olsen, one of the three sailors who leaped overboard from the Corleton, at Queenscliffe, to desert, and was supposed to have been drowned, turned tip the 9th inst. He was twelve hours in the water, and had been hiding with a fisherman since. At the dedication of the new Catholic Church at Gordons, near Ballarat, Arehbishop Goold again attacked the Education Act. Captain Kay, clerk of the Executive Council for many years, is about to retire. At the Mayor’s quarterly luncheon, the Act--111 g-Governor, the Premier, and other members of the Mmistry were present. The Mining Department is calling for tenbores to test auriferous areas. Jhe National Agricultural Society is attempting to prevent the importation of sheep from Tasmania on the ground of the existence of scab there.

T hf Rev Charles Clark reached Melbourne - 6 Tlth. He begins his services at the Athenaeum next Sunday. The Irish will hold an O’Connell centenary celebration here.

. The Rev. Charles Strong will succeed the late Mir Menzies at the new Scotch Church, the spire of which is completed, and is the tallest in Melbourne.

Mr William Speedy, of Wainui, Hawke’s Hay, has been granted letters patent for improvements in pressing wool, Ac. • e tor Lands announced that he will auction no more country land until Parliament has Pad an opportunity of expressing its opinion on the Land Bill.

The Government analyst reports that of the Colonial beer he found few samples of brewers’ and all slightly adulterated with fusil oil by the publicans ; common salt was added in some cases, thereby increasing thirst. The imperfections in the Colonial beer are attributed to the large use of sugar instead of malt, to the leticiency in the quality and quantity of hops. “1“ J*?. e “igh temperature and fomentation, ihc King of Siam has stated he will ptob.P®} 1 tribute an interesting collection to the Melbou ne Exhibition. Utting, mo'her and daughter, have been committed for m-d for perjury at the trial of blank Sperm, who v. is sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and u> two whippings for an alleged criminal assault upon the daughter. The Victoria Permanent Fire Insurance Company, with a capital of mi! 1 ion sterling has been register, d. James Barker, a laborer, c.urmiitt-.-il suicide on the JOth by throwing himself from a r.t.lway bridge at Williamstown. He was run over bv the train and killed instantaneously.

„ . , , . „ Stdnev. •tit ? e . influential meeting was held on the 11th m favor of the annexation of New Gmnea by the Imperial Government. The Philadelphia Commission have determined on the representation of the Colony at the Melbourne exhibition.

, The Herald’s’ Cooktown correspondent attributes the rush of Chinese to representations of the Canton and Hong Kong merchants that the vjueensJand Government proposes to raise a million and a>half for railways and public works.

The Governor attended Maitland races. The Cup was won by his colt^Kingsbnrough. Murphy, charged with murder and wifepoisoning at Shoalhaven, and acquitted, has been re-arrested. The Postmaster-General has received a telegrain stating that the Sydney man-bag was saved from the wreck of the Schiller.

The Gothenburg fund has reached L 8,900. Ihe heavy rains have caused floods, and greatly injured the Botanic and other gardens and the Glenelg railway.