LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 587, 6 May 1876, Page 2

LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

[By Submarine Cable]

Melbourne, May 5. Mr Brough Smythe has resigned, but he is eligible for a situation in another branch of the service. Sydney, May 5. Arrangements are being made to alleviate the distress among the diggers who have gone to the Queensland rush. Many are receiving work from the Queensland Government ; arrangements are also being made to assist those desirous of returning to the South. May 6, The Auckland Acclimatisation Society have applied to our Government to assist them in the introduction of swallows. Our Government are negotiating with the Queensland Government about the telegraph line from Norman town to Singapore. [Per Ringarooma, via Bluff.] Melbourne (Undated.) Governor Bowen, accompanied by four Ministers, has been paying a visit to the Western district for the purpose of turning the first sod of the Preland railway, and he met with the most enthusiastic reception, Political matters remain in abeyance, but there arc signs of the coming storm when Parliament meets on -Tune 20th.

The Agent-Generalship has been decided by the appointment of Mr Michie. The Stevenson embroglio has only for a time been settled. The Government, after detaining the letters of the firm for three weeks, returned them unopened, but accompanied by a letter stating that the refusal of Messrs Stevenson to allow their letters to b» opened in the presence of witnesses was jjrima facie evidence of their gui't, as they must have something to conceal, and at the same time threatening to examine every package of theirs imported, with the view of personally verifying the correctness of their entries.

It is expected that the result of the Brough Smythe inquiry will be the abolition of tnc mining department altogether. There has been a great dispute over the will of Mr David Nesbitt, better known as Scotch Jock, and after some equity proceed ings the matter then went to a jury for decision.

A daring robbery of a bank in broad daylight has taken place at Seymour, when the branch of the Bank of Victoria was stuck up by an armed burglar in the temporary absence of the manager. The clerk in charge was bound and gagged, and the thief decamped with £570. The settling over the Randwick Races ha* resulted so far satisfactorily. One section of the ring are losers to the tune,- it is said, of several thousands, having manfully stood to Richmond all through. A. T., the winner of the Cup, is said to have drawn £20,000 in winnings for his backers. When Sullivan, the murderer, was brought up, he stated on affidavit that he was possessed of one acre of town, and twenty acres of country lands at Wedderburn, and that he had been domiciled in Victoria from 1845. He states that for private reasons he does not intend to reside in Victoria. Cable communication with Australia is now completely cut off by the breaking of no less than two of the cables forming the submarine line, and as the repairing steamer is at present at Penang, there is no vessel available for the Port Darwin and Java section. It may perhaps be two or three weeks or more before through communication will be restored. The wheat market still continues firm, but the absence of English telegrams stops business. G iptain Audley Ooote has made an off r to the Queensland Government to duplicate all the cables east of Singapore, and also the land lines. This will probably have to be done at no very distant date.