LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1398, 23 January 1873, Page 2

LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[ifew zealand press association.] Sydney. The Hero sailed on January 16. The first Wesleyan Conference commenced to-day. Hall's tender for the direct Californian Mail Service, L 58,000, is likely to be signed during the present month. The Fiji Government guarantee L3OOO if the mail steamer calls at Kandava. : The steam collier Bullie arrived in 63 days from England. The schooner Helen has been totally wrecked at Lake Macquarie. The barque Surconf has been lost off Caledonia. The crew are saved. The Newcastle miners are still on strike ; riots are feared ; numbers of police. There are no vessels loading. An Imperial despatch, denies having recognised the Government of Fiji, or having sanctioned Captain Cossack's action in that matter. Melbourne, Jan. 16. A gold Exhibition medal has been awarded to Harrison, for his freezing process in the preservation of meat • the Woollen Company for tweeds ; Bright Bros, for tin and crucibles; and to Russell and Wilson for wool. The money excitement has died. The share market is depressed, and the import market dull. Late Mauritius advices report a further rise in sugar. , Great floods, unprecedented and almost general have occurred, damaging the crops. In the mines, several persons were drowned. A company is being formed to construct a railway from Moama to Deniliqnin. Satisfactory arrangements have been arrived at by the Beetroot Sugar Company, and they continue operations. Young, Castlemaine Bank manager, has been committed on a charge of embezzlement. Preparations have been made for an intercolonial four-oared race. Fuller, station-master at Bnninyong, has been killed by a train. The Continental Railway scheme has been brought under notice by Sir Henry Ayres and Mr Barrow. The sentences of Mount and Morris are postponed till April. The Mint has been idle for weeks, the Banks refusing to pay the present high charges for coinage. Sugars are selling readily at L 36 for yellows, L 39 10s for fine whites. A London telegram states : — Bar iron, LI 3; sheet, Ll7; tin plates and hardware, advanced from 10 to 15 per cent. A large number of denominational schools have sent in their adhesion to the new education system. The Melbourne regatta is fixed for the 4th and sth April. Great discontent is expressed at the Exhibition awards. There have been considerable sales of barley at 4s 6d ; wheat, 5s 7d to 6s 9d ; oats, 3s to 33 2d. The proposal to erect a large annexe for the Colonies in the London Exhibition met with the approval of the Commissioners and the Government. ... The breaking up of the combination between the banks has reduced the rates of discount. The Sandhurst dividends for public companies last year amounted to L 565,000. The land ia Collins street known as Howick's, was sold for L 20,000. The trans-continental railway scheme brought under the notice of the delegates has been promised consideration. Another case of infanticide occurred at Fitzroy. The Secretary of the Polynesian Company interviewed Yogel, and requested that Webb's steamers be permitted to coal at Fiji, Yogel considered the route too dangerous at present. The Common School Act is working well. A charge of malpractice against Wall, the bookmaker, is to be investigated by the Tattersall's Room Committee. Adelaide wheat, 4s 4^d to 4s sd.