LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3935, 5 October 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(/’./■ h'/r.o Firth «> HulH'ibi.) Mkluouunf, September lTi. The want of confidence debate is still on It is rumored that the Opposition have a majority of twelve. Two constables brutally assaulted an old man in the Melbourne lock up, and he recovered L2OO damages. Madame Ristori is still playing at the Opera House, A girl fifteen years of ago has In on tried for burglary. She went into the hut of a neighbor whom she knew well, and took a piece of broad, a few currants, and a little sugar. .She was sentenced to twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Public meetings are being I eld throughout the Colony to express opinions for or against the new Ministry. Four Darwin. A box of gold was dropped into eight fathoms of water by a man while carrying it on board the Claud Hamilton. The spot was buoyed, and a boat made fast to the buoy, but it has disappeared. The steamer left without the gold, which was insured • ADELAIDE. The large bell for the TVst Office clock, weighing two and a half tons, has been hoisted. At the Adelaide raca meeting 1! al Gauntlet won the Maiden LTate, and the Railway Stakes Steeplechase was won by Demon. Two thousand persons were [present at the farewell entertainment to the Rev. Charles Clark. Sydney. The acceptances for the Maitland races are numerous. Priam and Athos are much fancied for the big race. A fire broke out on board the Edina, but was extinguished without much damage being done. Helen Kennedy, aged sixteen, has been burned to death at Newton through an explosion of kerosene while lighting the lire. A new lead of gold is suppose:i to have been discovered at Gulgong. Launckstox. The preliminary inquiry into the loss of the Cambridgeshire has been held with closed doors.