LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4154, 20 June 1876, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

{Per Hero at Auckland.)

Melbourne, June 14. The National Reform League adjourned the consideration of the petition asking for the recall of the Governor.

Lillywhite's cricket team will be here before Christmas.

Roberts played a match at billiards with Alberts, giving him 400 points in 1,000. Roberts scored out when Alberts had only made 686. Roberts's longest break was 169, including Gf ty one Bpot shots. The Adelaide Press is crying ont that unless public works are pushed on the immigrants brought out there will be in want.

Mr Royce, partner in Fairlie'a Engine Company, is coming out to Brisbane with an engine to prove to the Government the merit of the patent. Elizabeth Housefield, charged with the murder of her husband by poisoning him, and Thomas Bonney, charged with being an accessory, have been committed for trial. At Maytown, a woman named Mrs Curley, cohabiting with a man named Hover or Hovett, a digger, was found murdered in the bush on the Hodgkinson River. Both her arms were chopped off. Mr Hall, overseer on the Isle Station, while playing leap frog, fell and broke his neck. He died instantaneously. Launceston, May 26. The smelti-g furnaoes at the British ana Tasmanian Charcoal Company's works at West Tamar are now in full operation. The first oast yielded 16 tons of very fine metal..