LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Ptr Alhambra at Hokitika,.) Melbourne, January 26. The political aitdition remains unchanged, and the Opposition still refuse supplies 7n the meantime demands for payment are being m-de on the Treasury. Mr Tucker’s motion, affirming the desirability of a dissolution, was nega- - ived by a majority of eight in a thin House, bat fourteen supporters of the Government were „b‘ eht. The time has been wasted-night after niuhf by motions for adjournment, and motions to" report progress, but no progress of any kind has been ma'e. Mr George Higinbotham has i esighed hj s seat in the Assembly, giving as his reason his objection to the unconstitutional tactics of the Opposition in using the foinis of the House to,' fcoerce a hostile majoritypand at the Same time he says he cannot support the .Ministry. Sir Julius Yogel arrived by the s s#Somersetfihirt). He proceeds to Sydney en route to New Zealknd tomorrow. [A Press Agency telegram from W states that air Jt Vogel is on hoard the Alhambra, but this is evidently a, mistake.—Ed, B, S.] , The mail steamer Ohina having broken down shortly after leaving Galle, and been compelled to put back, she will be at least a week late in arriving at Melbourne as she was not expected to start again until last Monday. Mdle. De Murska, who was to have left for New Zealand iu the Omeo to-morrow, has postponed her departure for about a fortnight. owing to the illness of her husband, Mr Alfred Anderson. She has been having tremendous audiences here, and it is therefore probable she will I 'give one or two more concerts. She also goes up-country before leaving for New Zealand. . . The University Degreesßillperrmttiqgwomen to graduate has been lost in the Council by the previous question being tuov- d. A fire yesterday destroyed a large portion of Mowling’s stearine candle factory on Yarra Bank. The loss,i> estimated »t L 2,000, partly in-ured in Australian, London and Lancashire, and Victoria offices. ' The City of Melbourne arrived at San Fran-ci-co on the 21st inst.

Scarlet fever is not yet stamped out. The epidemic has appealed in various parts of the couhtiy, but the mortality has been somewhat teduced. The Isabella, which left Newcastle on December 7 for Fort Albert, has not yet arrived.

During a debate in the Assembly the other night, two persons in the strangers’ gallery, carried away by their feelings, loudly dissented ! ropi the Attorney-General. They were immediately taken into custody by the sergeant atarni«, but were speedily released.. The electoral po'ls for the current year show a total increase iu the number of electors of 17,226. . ’ , . • Mining matters are improving, and there is a hO ilthier tone in the share market. Mr Lyttelton, ex-superintendent of police, is dead. r i he Hibernia, with the New Zealand cable aboa d, passed Cape Otway this morning, bound for Sydney. A young man named _ Thomas Revell died from the effects of an injection of ammonia Uuder the skin.

The Rev. T. F. Bird, a well-knowd GonsrregationalLt preacher and lecturer,-, is very ill.:

, ' ' Sydney. The want of confidence motion was negatived by 34 to 23. Spronle has been committed for trial for crumbs to the children in the Bandwick Asylum. A boy named Mogridge has been killed at. Eedfern by a blow from a cricket ball.' portion of the notes stolen from the Ottoonbar Bank have been’ found in the possession of a man arrested at Hay. The gold yield last year was 17,0000z5. less thin the previous year. , The barque Lntken, laden with railway iron, sank in Newcastle harbor in fourteen feet of water.

The Queen disallowed the Act to enforce claims against the Crown, as bving not sufficiently explicit to exclude the Imperial Government.

The most severe gale felt for years was experienced on Monday at Brisbane, It did much damage. The drought in v Queensland continues. ; ■ A PULA 11 iK. , It is anticipated, with the reduced expenditure and savings, that the deficiency in the revenue will not exceed L 25.000. The population of the Colony at the end of the year was 210,700, Twe men were drowned in the’harbor during a boat race. . ,