LATEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 167, 7 February 1867, Page 3

LATEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS.

We make ;the.:follo wing extracts from our latest Yibtprian files to hand by the Alhambra. ? p : ; J- ;; The Hon. ' Henry Miller has resigned the portfolio of Minister of-Railways. v A scheme fop providing dock accommQdation and for the improvement of the Yarra, so jisV to prevent floods, has been brought forward. The work is estimated to cost L600,0Q0^;; :v. The Intercolonial Postal Conference will be held at the, end of February. A telegram from 'Braidwood annoxmces that -Michael Connell and Guiness have been apprehended for connection with the recent murders at Jinden. Messrs Slqmaii and Walker, the suc^ cessors of M/Intyre^ in the Leichart ex- ; ploration have died frompestilence. The ? climate of the Gulf qf Carpentaria is said i to be very unhealthy, , The case against^Mr Patterson for arson at Dalesford was; still proceeding. The _ evidence so far is strongly against the accused. A comet was visible at Beechworfch on the 21st January.' • ; J . Several deaths have occurred in various parts of the colony owing to the excessive heat.. ■■•■' ■.■"•;:." ■ • ' -"■■ ; '':?\ A committee consisting of Col. Nuddy/ Col. Richardson, and Mr Cloete, Police ■ Magistrate, has been appointed to. investi- < gate the cause bf crime, in the Braidwoad <£ district, and to adopt measures for rea Pressing it. ;■/■;- --&' Captain Eastwood, pay^clerk of the I' isew South Wales railway department has :t absconded to : CaHfornia. Defalcations to' %: tile extent bf several thousand pounds r JJivel <ive been discovered. The Government -will send a detective in the Panama steak ; nier to aiT63t Mm on liis arrival. %. Advicesfrom the Weddin diggings are ;;, satisfactory. ° ; ■ . ;■ lmitfeitee shipments of wheat are being | made.from .Adelaide to jEngland^: ,^ •: ; A lodeof copper is said to have been, !;■ mscoyerediph the north of Tasmania.' - c , 1S proposed to cut down the expenses i, ot tneTasmanian Government byreducfe i"|^ Governors' salary from L 4.000 to j iid,OQO; andhis allowances from L 2,500, 500 =;=:_■ to L 30 0; and the salaries of Ministers ->: from L9OO to L7OO. ■;:- ..