LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3860, 8 July 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July 3. Pending the commencement of the new Californian contract the Government has arranged with the A.S.N. Company for four additional trips to San Francisco and back. After a heavy debate Mr Parkes’s resolution for adopting the Committee’s report on the removal by the Colonial Treasurer of L 750,000 from the.Bank of New South Wales to other banks was negatived by 30 to 25. Satisfactory reports come from the pastoral districts. The increase of flecks is unprecedentedly large. Extensive preparations are being made for the Philadelphia Exhibition by the Commissioners.

The steamer St. Osyth has arrived at Melbourne.

Heavy gales were experienced at the beginning of the week, with a tremendous sea along the coast. Vessels arriving at Newcsstle were unable to enter the port. No serious casualties are reported save that the ships Ben Nevis and Kesult, bound for Newcastle, are ashore at Broken Bay. The heavy rain caused floods, but no serious damage. At Gouldburn snow fell for five hours. The breakwater at Wooloengong was damaged by the gale, four concrete blocks, each weighing twenty-five tons, being washed into the sea. The schedule of F. W. • Cape, broker, deceased, has been filed in insolvency. The liabilities are L 93,000, and the assets L 254. The North German ship R. D. B. G., Hanover to Wellington was spoken on May 1, twenty-five days out. No steps have yet been taken here in regard to the Australian team of cricketers to visit New Zealand.

Melbourne, July 2. The Full Court sustained the conviction of the defaulter O’Farrell, and confirmed his sentence of nine years. Mr Frank Stephens’s life-boat made a successful trial trip to Queenscliff, The steamer St. Osyth arrived here on Sunday, after a passage of actual steaming under forty-three days- the fastest on record; the actual time occupied being uncter forty-five days. She left Plymouth at midnight on the 12th May, and was twenty seven hours at St. Vincent. She has 300 passengers and a full cargo. Sir George Bowen is expected to arrive in Victoria on October 16.

By a tremendous flood in tho Alurray at Echuca considerable damage was done. The estate of Thomas Luke and Co. shows liabilities at L 36,000. The deficiency will probably be small. Fears are entertained for the safety of the ship Grown Princess, which left London in January last, and of which nothing has since been heard.

The Land Bill passed its second reading without division. The creditors in M'Ewan’s estate have agreed that the bank be paid 6s in the pound on their claim, and the estate afterwards wound up on behalf of the other creditors. The barque Corrido, from Newcastle to Adelaide, with coal, was wrecked at Swan Island: The crew were saved. All hope has been abandoned of saving the Blencathra, ashore at King's Island. The Bev. Charles Clark has been requested to lecture on behalf of the Tichbourne claimant, and was promised the use of some fresh documents, but declined. Brisbane, July 2. Mr M'Allister, the Premier of tho Colony, was seized with a fit of apoplexy at the beginning of the week, but is now recovered. The Legislative Council has passed the third reading of the Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister BUI. Adelaide. Wheat, 4s. Launceston. The country is flooded in all directions.