LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3855, 2 July 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, June 20. The Cyphrenes arrived yesterday, a day in advance of her contract time. The A.S.N. Co.’s steamer Rangatira, from Levuka to New Caledonia, was wrecked on the 31st May off the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, All hands were saved. The Government has completed arrangements with the A.S.N. Co. for the continuance of the temporary Pacific Mail Service. The stallion Blair Athol, valued at L 3,000, which w ;s stolen, has been discovered shot and mutilated, in order to prevent identification. It is supposed the thieves determined on this course to prevent their discovery. Melbourne. Jum Pong, the Chinaman, is committed for trial on the charge of having murdered one Kenzelman at Bet Bet. A laboring man named Maurice Williams, of Emerald Hill, has committed suicide from inability to work. The tender of James M’Ewan has been aceepted for the rails and fastenings for the Deniliquin and Moana railway, for L 41,000. Frank Stephen is about to send a life-boat on atrip to Sydney. Legatt, an- old sailor, and his son, proceed from here with a fortnight’s provisions. The preliminary trial is to be made to-morrow. Letters from King’s Island state that the efforts to raise the Blencartha are proceeding satisfactorily. A butcher named David Glenuon has been fined LlO, and five guineas costs, for exposing diseased meat in the public market. The Beecmvorlh coach, between Yackandahdah and Wodonga, capsized and was carried about 100 yards clown the creek. The driver narrowly escaped drowning, and the mails were lost, M'Ewen’s estate has been sequestrated. At a meeting of cn (liters the Colonial Bank made an offer to buy or sell the estate at'6s in the £ Thomas Luke and Co., tea merchants, have called a meeting of their creditors. Barrett’s sentence of death has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The Rom-m Catholic Bishop Crane had a most enthusiastic reception at Beeehworth today. A London telegram states that the overdue ship Canada struck on a sunken rock, and put into Mauritius leaky. A iran named Gell has been committed by the Coroner at Buninyong for causing the death of his wife At the inquest on Smith, killed by the gas explosion in the Theatre Roy al, a verdict of “ Accidental death ” was returned; the jury adding that the blame entirely rested on the deceased, who carelessly used a light. Adel aid c\ A great revival demonstration will take place at Moonta. It has been resolved to appoint a commission to consider the best means of promoting agricultural technical education. An agitation is on foot for sliding the import duty on flour. The total export of pearl shell last season amounted to 300 tons.

The Gothenburg Relief Fund has reached over L 9,000, ■