LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 725, 10 September 1870, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY THE S.S. TARARUA. r [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]] « ; (FROM OX3 R OWN CORRESPONDENT.) • Melbourne, Sept. 3. ' Mr Aapinall has resigned his seat ia s the Assembly owing to his estate being compulsorily sequestrated. , De Graves has been elected by a large f majority over Halfey for the Southern ' Provinces. For the Eastern Provinces * Highett was re-elected unopposed. For f the [North- Western Provinces Mitchell [ ditto. J Since the receipt of the war newg the 1 Government has held several Cabinet x meetings, and decided to re-organise the 1 Volunteers, placing them on a militia footing ; three hundred at a time to be 1 drilled a fortnight in barrack life. Work--1 shops are also busy putting gun carriages. in order. A Royal Commission on the Federation 1 question has been appointed. ' The Government contemplate Bending a b despatch boat to Galle to bring intelligence direct should Eugland be involved. The Germans throughout the different colonies are subscribing a fund to relieve the families of the killed and wounded Prussians. . The Privy Council has quashed the 1 conviction of Hugo Levinger, and directed a writ of venire de novo to issue. This virtually will release him, as the witnesses are now not comeatable. Thij Navigation Board has censured Captain Gregory for losing the barque Sussex, and would have suspended his certificate had he got one. The Government has appointed Mr Start, police magistrate, returning officer , for the Ceutral Province, vice Wilkie ; , removed. Cnsack was executed on Tuesday for , wife murder at Wood's Point. Government contemplate . reducing the first and second class railway fares, and . abolishing the third class. >' *- Tom Thumb's troupe gave an entertainment in the Town Hall to-day for the benefit of the local charities. j!j The return fancy ball yielded a surplus of L6OO, which was divided amongst tbik , charities. ' T Our latest new industry — a match fac--3 tory — has come to grief, its proprietorshaving filed their schedule. 3 At the General Sessions of the Supreme Court, Sangnilly, a survivor of the General Grant, was acquitted on a charge of robbery. . Arguments in Supplo's case were post- ' poned till Thursday. . - . : The foundation stone of the Jewish AJinshonses haa been laid. The ironworkers are agitating to get all the Government work done in; the Colony. The insurance companies have raised marine risks by two and a-half as a war j risk. .. : The Banks of the different Colonies raised exchange to two and a half premium. The annual report of the Shipowners' Association shows that the vessels owned in Victoria are twenty less than" last year. A full Court has grauted a rule nisi for a nonsuit or to reduce the damages- in the case Miller v. Harris, a suit to recover money staked on a foot-race. Sydney, Sept. 3. The Exhibition was opened on Tuesday? with great eclat. The weather was fiiie, „ and there were immense crowds. ■A^ general holiday was proclaimed. Victoria took fifteen prizes out of twenty offered^ for agricultural implements, and the first ; prize for woollen cloths and hams andl n bacon. Sydney excelled in horses;. Twenty-five thousand persons visited thes Exhibition next day. Lord Canterbury • arrived from Melbourne, and attended the Exhibition. A banquet was given on Thursday, when he made a fine speech in. reply to the toast, " Sister Colonies." The City of Melbourne left on Thursdaywith the Californiau . mail, and nearlysixty passengers. . ; The mail news is considered very disastrous at Sydney, most of their crop being at July sales when the reduction occurred. ...... The Brisbane elections are going rather against Ministers. Mr Bell, prominent member of the Opposition, has been returned, and Ministers are likely to meet the House with a minority. Adelaide, Sept. 2. Advices report the departure of the overland telegraph party. News from Port Darwin states that Captain Douglas has arrived and assumed the command. Forrest's party has been lionised in a small way. . -^ , The Burra railway haa ibeen opened., *^ The Criterion reef yielded 86oz from 20 tons of stone. .- '• The Land Act has passed throiigh coni- ; mittee, and offers liberal inducement to settlers. • The Agent of the Prussian Government bought four hundred tons of copper for the manufacture of cartridges previous to the declaration of war. - Hobart Town,. Sept. 2. A German immigrant Rhip has arrived. The Governor, Ministers, and members: of parliament visited hex*. The captain* entertained them to lunch. The toasts of: the. Queen, the King of Prussia, Crown; Prince and Princess of Prussia, were duly honored. ' ■. Parliament has commenced a debate on the main line railway resolutions, on the basis submitted by Captain Coote. .-,.-,-