LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3978, 24 November 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Vasco di Gama at Auckland.) Sydney, November 10, It was stated by Mr Earns, PostmasterGeneial in answer to a question put to him by Mr Hoskins in tbe Legislative Assembly yesterday, that the Government had refused to sanction any deviation from the terms of the contract for the Pacific mail service, and that in taking this course they were acting with the concurrence of the New Zealand Government, Tip Postmaster: General also stated that in the event of the Vasco di Gama proceeding by any other than the direct route mails would only be given her as they would to any private vessel. Mr Hal), manager for the Pacific Mail Company, has consented to convey' the New Zealand exhibits for the Philadelphia Exhibition to San Francisco free of charge,

Melbouun 10. The public won L 30.000 by Wollomai’s victory in the Cup. Thomas Dalby, the Collingwood registrar, and Boss, who were concerned in an illegal marriage, were found guilty, but were re'-oru-mended to mercy. '1 hey were remanded for sentence, A telegram has been received stating that the baiquc Formosa, bound from Newcastle to Manilla, was wrecked on the I'hillipine Islands on October 29. The crew were saved. Arrived—The s.s. Northumberland. A DEE AIDE,

A dreadful .murder has been com fitted on Moran's station, near Wentworth. IMch ud Anderson, a station man, quarrelled with the cook, Edward Brown, knocked him down, and dragged him into the river, where both were drowned. Wheat is dull at ns od. Sydney. The Sydney authorities refused to sanction the Vasco di Gama’s going via Auckland instead of performing the service via Fiji a.; contracted. They did not advertise the mail, but got one ready and placed it aboard her as an ordinary ship, bolding the conti actors responsible for the deviation. They also refused to send an Auckland mail.