LATEST AUSTRALIAN.
(Per Alhambra at Hokitika.)
Melbourne, June 12. The Assembly had only a short sitting on Thursday, when the Laud Bill debate was further adjourned. A charge of forgery is being investigated against Duncan Longern, formerly an officer of Dragoons and a member of the Assembly. A Chinaman has been committed for the manslaughter of a child by a blow aimed at the mother.
A resolution has been passed in the New South Wales Assembly in favor of subsidising the proposed New Zealand cable. The further failures of James Humack and Benjamin Cocks, boot and shoe dealer, with liabilities of L 9.000 are reported. The overland telegraph line has been interrupted for the last two days. A cargo of New Zealand feed oats ex Mary Bannatyne fetched 4s. The steamship Northumberland leaves Melbourne for London to-day.
_ r Sidney. The resolution moved in the Assembly by the Postmaster-General (Mr Burns), and adopted by the Assembly, assents to a subsidy of L 7,500 iper annum for ten years, two-thirds to be paid by New Zealand and one-third by New South Wales. The minimum messages of ten words are to cost 7s 6d. The cable is to be laid within twelve months, and the company are prepared to accept contracts on these terms.
The blacks attacked some Chinese on the Palmer river and robbed their teats. They speared one Chinaman, and subsequently ate him. 650 Chinese have landed at Cooktown from Hongkong within the last few days.
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Evening Star, Issue 3843, 18 June 1875, Page 3
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