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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1258, 10 August 1872, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PER NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND,, Aug. 8.. The Alexandra has arrived. She left Sydney on August 3. Passengers— -39 for San Francisco, and 20 for New Zealand and the Australian - Californian mails. , Sydney, Aug. 2. Parliament will be prorogued next week. The Government withdraw its resolutions authorising an arrangement on the Border Treaty with Victoria, but will make one without any Parliamentary action. The Government promise next session to introduce a Bill for making the Upper House elective. Fresh discoveries of tin have been made. A splendid lode was struck by Glen and Innes of stream tin on the Gwydin river. Labor is becoming scarce. The Newcastle miners' strike is virtually terminated. The men held a ballot meet- . ing yesternight, and decided to accept the proprietors' offers. Work is likely to be resumed on Monday. The Lambton Co. have raised the price to 9a per tor. Krohmins's Company crushed 15| tons picked quartz, which yielded 69700z of gold. The Seamen's strike still continues. The Hero is still in quarantine,, but there are no fresh cases of small-pox. The Government has promised to join other Colonial Governments in creating an Australian annex to the London Exhibition. ■ , v The Peakdown Copper Co. declared a dividend of 200 per cent, per annum ; Ash Co., 6 per cent, per annum. Breadstuffs, .dull ; -•wheat," os ;6d to 6s 4d; flour, ;Ll4 to Lls ; twist tobacco, dearer; iron, L 2 higher. Melbourne, Aug. 2. In the Legislative Assembly, the Treasurer stated that it would not be necessary, by the terms of the Californian mail contract, for the Government to submit a resolution to the House to ratify the contract, as it was not the intention to ask Parliament to ratify the mail contract. Mr Duffy gave notice of a question as to the intentions of the Government in reference to the mail services. . £320,000 have been set apart for the construction of • eighty-four miles of railway to be commenced immediately. , The Government has resolved to send Captain Snell, of the Volunteer Artillery, home for twelve months, to study the art of using heavy ordnance.. It is stated on the authority of a private letter that the Hon. Mr Gordon, from Mauritius, is to be the new: Governor. S.cott's trial, at Ballarat, for the bank robbery, lasted several days. He made an able defence, but received a sentence of ten yearß* imprisonment. A raid has been made on the Chinese gamblers, and the keeper of the house was fined LlO. A fire occurred this morning in Glasscock's horse bazaar. The damage is insured in the Alliance office. ._ In the action of Dr Lloyd against the Medical Jmmval, for libel, a verdict was given for the defendants. : A communication from the AgentGeneral states that the Imperial Government approve of the Californian mail contract, and would grant a subsidy of L 20,000. ■! On Friday, the Mining on Private Property Bill was read a second time in the Assembly. The libel action against the Herald, is terminated ; damages, L4O. Busiuess quiet. Wheat, 6s (Sd to 7s. Q«ick3ilVer, 4s 6d, holders asking 6s. Raven brand tobacco, la 7£d. Maize, 3s 2d ; brisk demand. Salt, an extreme figure for fine qualities. Sugars inquired for. Teas command attention. Adelaide, Aug. 2. Parliamentary news unimportaut. Tasmania, Aug. 2. The political crisis, continues. Mr Meredith is unable to form a Ministry. Arrived — Pet, from New Zealand; Chanticleer, from Lyttelton.

! " • . " - • Lord Kimberley has forwarded to the Governor of South , Australia the following table, showing the proportion of cases of small-pox' ending fatally- amongst persons wholly unvaccinated, and persons more or less efficiently vaccinated, in the United Kingdom :— ' ' Amongst persons unvaccinated 35 per cent, of fatal cases; do stated to have been vaccinated, but bearing no vaccine , scar, 21 f ; do having one vaccine acar, 7^j do having two vaccine scars, 4£ j do haying three vaccine scars, If ; do having four or more scars, f." • .

An American authority, on the subject on which lie writes, says : — Boys, hear our solemn adjuration, and be warned in time. Never be editors! Dead-head tickets to circuses and dog-shows are all very well in their way. But don't let them lead you into that dingy den of inky horror and iniquity, burlesquingly known as . the editorial sanctum. Stand back. Keep out. Be stockgamblera, railroad directors, presidents of a sage-stuffing machine, rag-vendors or charcoal bawlers. But never, no never, no never be editors !■■'..

The following is a specimen of the trash which is being circulated in England in the shape of " information. to emigrants." It is an extract from* a pamphlet published, by. the Rev P. Barclay, M.A., lately of Napier :-- "New Zealand is a good land— a land of brooks, of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of valley's and hills; aland of wheat and barley and vines and fig-trees arid pomegranates ; a land of oil, olive, and honey; aland wherein thou mayesfc eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack anything i \ it ; a land where stones are iron, and out. ol whose hills thou'-mayest dig brass," <