LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 4003, 23 December 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Fir Ola'jo at Hokitika.) . , Melbourne, December 17. ihere is no mter h.ngiiah news, Iho on i lie Budget debate was taken at two o’clock this morning, when M r 11 err A s amendment was negatived by foitythree t- lw. n ty eight, o;m - r two of'the Government supporters being absent. A further aineu incut has be-n proposed in favor of a dissolution ; but this is not likely to meet a bitter fate, us tnere is d cidedlv a majority of the House against a dissolution. There is very little prospect of the session coming to a eh. eat present ('nmmodore Hoskins pad an <dli. isl visit to the Vc ing-<,M.yern r tin- mo uing, and was from t,iC slli ps Of wav and tie batteries, iim tern- leaves for Pydne, on Monday. The Dido proceeds to Kngiand. bring und-r Home ord i s. Th- non-airival of die sterner CVinia in oydnoy has left the agent-, wit Imp ; ,ny i )oab lo lake tho mails on to t’alih.rma, and the Goveriumnt has d oliw.-d t-.-e off, r of the Macgre gor for the c-mycyanee of lim mails. The agents have advised the Government that in the event of t;lm noii-a« Aval of the Colima there will lie no hunt available ibis month mW*' HilU ,ia ‘‘ a writ on Mr Dikiis’. M L.A., for slander contained in his public speeches. Mr Gibbs lias accepted s< rvieo of the writ and retained counsel, and it is said he intends to plead justilicaiion. Time is my improvement in the weather. Bam still continues. The mail steamer Singapore ar.ived on December 13, two days early, A Bill for abolishing verdicts of '/c)o s< passed its second reading in the Legislative C*'illicit; but tlie .Morn-d Women's Proiettv Bill and a Secret Bdl of Sale Bill was nem». t vod. ° A large number of ci ses of erysipelas are reported The contagion is caused by the attendance of men who had visited persons similarly diseased.

. Complaints ar- made of the scarcity of labor m the country distiicts, Inf. irma-tion has been received that a young Englishman named Keys has been murdered by the natives on Gilbert's Island