LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3919, 15 September 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

{Per Otogo at kelson.)

mi . Melbourne, September 8. There is no English news. The Ringarooma brings the next Suee mail to New Zealand.

Stephens, who set out in a life-boat on a voyage to Sydney, only got round Wilson's Promontory, iu a mouth, aud then returned bv steamer.

lavliauient reassembled yesterday for the first time with the new Ministry, and the Chief Secretary volunteered a statement, first with reference as to the past and then as to the future. The Government do not intend to introduee any extensive measure s this session, but will content themselves with a few Bills reserving until next session the vex«*d question of constitutional reform. The Mining on Private Property Bill will be the first introduced, then the amending Laud Dill to prevent .iummvism and raise the assessment on stockalso a shore Bill to prevent frauds I iu passing entries at Customs by undervaluing. tn t ? r f^ ng »' n " lßhm , e » t fwwiou imprisonment instead ot a fine. 1 here is a deficit in the revenue of something considerably over L2OO 000 and this ih to be met in the tint place by a land tax, beginning with the large estates and going gradually down. The Goverhment propose a loan for completing railways, waterworks and school buildings. Thfllndon market is said to be favorable just now for ftrt-uag a loan; Other financial L will * .introduced on Thursday ncxtfXi t £ Budget speech » to be made. How £? Si Government will have an opportSX of cm tying out this policy remain to be seen A °l\ h9 Opposition JTheUi >esterday, at which twenty-two men.ber* but matters w 0 ™ .taeussea, nothing wis decide.-1 ,W A. vet the Government have been tinable to Und'* tj. prweutativeinthe UpperHoußej at bwttheV

are but a scratch lot, but it is thought they will be allowed to carry on until they come to propose some extensive legislation. The only business done last nisjht was the passing of a Supply Bill for L 700.000. The Exhibition was opened en September 2. when all the Colonies were represented excepting New Zealand and Queensland. The exhibits :<re very numerous, and occupy a large amount of space. There areseparate departments or Japan, Singapore, the Northern Territory, Tasmania, and South- Australia. The whole collection shows t,V Industrial and manufacturing progress of tl;e Colonies. Over 5,000 season tickets have been sold, and the daily attendance up to the present has been, on an average, nearly 4,000. The machinery court i 3 a great, feature in the exhibition, and is the most attractive portion of the building. The steanWiip Whnmpoa made the passage from London in forty-six days. She brought a detachment of the Koyal .Engineers for Fiji. A w»man named Selburn was huvaed to death in a hut in Gippsland during a drunken orgie with some men, who were also much injured. Unusually heavy rains and melting snows have caused floods in various parts of the country. A Chinaman named Ah Maa has been executed at Melbourne gaol for murder lima de Murska and Ristori are both playing in Melbourne, and Madame Jananschik in Sydney. Both De Murska and lustori are causing a stir, the former drawing 'splendidly ; the latter being an Italian, does not do so well. Some anxiety had been felt about the Omeo, which arrived from New Zealand several days late, being detained by contrary winds and running short of fuel. Sydney. Mr Foster, Treasurer, goes by the October mail *t the solicitation of his colleagues. It is believed he will become Agent-General. The missionary schooner Payspring, while at the New Hebrides, had a boat's crew fired on by natives at one of the islands, and some were wounded.

J. and J. Skinner have failed, with liabilities L 64.000. . A letter has been published from Madame Rastoui, stati-.g that her husband and the other Communists who escaped from New Caledonia have arrived at Peru.

A white man named John Kenton, a native of Scotland and aged twenty-seven, has been rescued from the natives on the Island of Ma layta, one of the wildest of the Solomon Group. He had been in the hands of the natives for the last eight years. H.M.S Dido has arrived from Auckland. She encountered heavy weather.

Adelaide,

The second reading of the Stamp Bill has been carried. The tax on dividends is expunged and the fees on lawyers reduced.

A large quantity of rain has fallon, exceeding any previous year's.

(Per Omco at the Bluff.)

MelbourihE, September 9. The Otago sailed for Hokitika yesterday afternoon.

The Assembly last night adjourned at an early hour till Tuesday, to allow the Treasurer time to prepare his financial statement.

During th" twelve months ending Juno 30, 1876, the expenditure for railway works already authorised is estimated at L 640,200. The Town Hall Committee has resolved not to let the Town Hall on Sundays until a poll of the citizens has been taken on the question. Designs for a New Club house next the Town Hall, Collins street, hrwe been submitted. The building is to cost L 12.000. During a thunderstorm yesterday a young woman in Stephen street had a narrow escape from death. She was struck by a blinding flash of lightning, which rendered her Insensible for half-an-hour.

A reef was struck in the Magdnla mine, Stawell, this morning, ut a depth of 1,681 a feet and drilled into three feet without !>eing gone through. The London cable is oxpected to be repaired to-morrow.

Ristari gave a grand performance of "Judith" last night.

The telegraph line to Sydney is interrupted to-day by the very stormy weather. Sailed, yesterrlay. F W. Tucker, schooner, for the Bluff ; and from Newcastle, on the 7tb, the Bobycito, for Ounedin.