LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3970, 15 November 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The Macgfegor arrived at San Francisco on the 27th ult. A woman, 9* years old, hanged herself at Enfield on Saturday. Jhe contract for r.he Pacific mail service is not yet complete between the eo nr acting parties. shipments of frozen fish sent from Mort’s to Victoria on the 6.h and 18th ult. were opened on the 20th and found' to be perfo sh. Ihe i eruand is like yuo he great. Ihe Government; ban otf led a rews.rd of 1,50 for the apprfihension of the man who attempted ‘O rob the orange mail, Mr M Client’s action for libel ajpainst the stockwhip’ will he heard at the forthcoming sittings of the Supreme 1 burt. jßlondin opens in Sydney in Dec'-m her. It is repo, ted that he s earner Oyphrenes shoitly sai.s for Hong Kong. The piogramme of dr dames MTCullocb’s Ministry will embrace the taxation of various kinds of property, but there is no provision for an income tax, Edward Joseph Murphy, a v/ell-known Melbourne solicitor, has committed suicide by poison in his office, 1 he game of polo, which is so fashionable in ItpgJand, and wnich may be popularly described as hockey on hoiseb.ck, is about to be introduced in Melbourne. At Adelaide, a Mr Birmingham won a wagar for drawing a buggy from Gander to Kapunda, a distance of fifty-one mihrs, under twelve> hours. He accomplished the feat in ten hours and a-half. The Postmaster-General of South Australia has reported m favor of the postal card system, which will probably be introduced as soou as a plate from which to priut the cards can be obtained in England. ■M- r Richard Morton’s well known herd of pure bred short-horns, consisting of thirty seven animals has been sold by private contract tu Messrs iiobo tsoii Brothers, of Co ac, for L27,0i'0 I hat a Inge herd of cattle, uearl ad of homo birth and breeding, should sell at an ave.-age price ot 1-780, G a fact of proud U a“ Cuu,,t .V might reasonably feel