AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1722, 10 February 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Mblbodrnjb, Feb. 2. . The s.s. Tartar, iafter discharging her cargo of sugar, rice, etc., will sail for Sydney on the 4th or sth. ; ' Five tons more of tobacco Have been, stopped. Alexander Toddj Uruon Bank teller^ has pleaded guilty of embezzlement, and is remanded for sentence. A seaman of the Ellora has been found guilty of stabbing, and is remanded for sentence. The Church Assembly meets to-morrow, and will probably end this week. M'Callum Mohr, Ace of Trumps, and Sir Hercules have advanced in the betting for the Geelong Handicap. Flour, Ll4 ; wheat, 6s to 6s 2d. Most of that which has recently arrived is going to, the millers, or is being stored ; malt, 9s 6d for export. Adelaide, Feb. 2. The banquet to the officers of the Pera was a success. Captain Methven made a good speech. He declared that the danger in calling at Glen elg was not so great as in calling at Nepean Bay. The Treasury is repaying principal and: interest on account of the Northern Territory land to English and Colonial holders. „.-■•:.. A claim of . the North Australian Company to between L35j000 ; and L 40,000 is expected shortly; ''■■■.'< : Melbourne, Feb. 1. , The plans' for the bridge over the Murray, at Euchuca, are ready, and they, will be sent to Sydney.on Monday. It is expected that the bridge will be finished within two years. '

The Langlands Foundry Company report that they lost last year on. Govern^ ment contracts no less a sum than L7OOO.

An old man named Lomax, a farmer, has been killed by falling off a load of

a grass. 11 The Victoria Yacht Club Match was. i, sailed to-day, in a double-reefed breeze, c The first prize was won by the Hon. A. Mackay's Mystery, sailed by Mr Clarke, c M.L.A. ; Major Heath's Haidee second. s The others a long way behind, c At the banquet last night at Mansfield, c the Minister for Railways said that it was ,s the intention of the Government as far as d might be practicable, to connect the important outlying districts with the main c lines of the colony. ; , The Tartar came up the bay this mornt ing, after a fine passage of 25 days from . Hong Kong. She is commanded by Capt. Ferries. She is 300 ft long, 37ft beam, .. 1400 tons register, and has engines of 400 i horse power. Her saloon accommodation s is commodious for about 50 passengers.. The well-known . race horae Don Juan lias died suddenly. His death is believed c to have been caused by an old cotnp'aint. B The horse was suffering before 'the Cup Race. A post mortem is ordered, j The Essex, outward bound for London, ■" collided with the, barque Palace, at anchor at the Heads, bound for Newcastle. Both vessels are damaged. The latter has.returned to the bay for repairs. | Newcastle, Feb. 1. The Yarra and the Surprise, schooners, coal laden, bound for Sydney, were both, wrecked on the north beach early this - morning. The crew of the Yarra came 3 safely ashore in their boats, but 'the crewi 1 of the Surprise had a narrow escape of their lives. The mortar apparatus missed the vessel, and the crew then took to their boat, which capsized in the heavy surf, . throwing the occupants, six in number, into the sea. With the assistance of those I trom the shore, five were at once picked up in an exhausted condition. The missing one, a boy, was found drifting along with the breakers, and with the assistance of Messrs Stokes and Holt was brought ashore in an almost lifeless state, but was ultimately brought round. Both vessels broke up within aa hour. The debris is strewed along the beach. West Maitland, Feb. 1. A man named Webster was drowned this morning in the flood water. The river is lowering fast. Much distress prevails among the people flooded out. ' '. Albury, Feb. 1. The rush of produce 1 across to Victoria J is amazing. It is gleaned from various ] sources that the trade across the bridge i since the opening of ' the 'railway to "i Wodonga to this- day : is as follows: — November, ,1060 . bales wool, 490 bags } flour, 100 bags wheat; December, 4160 \ bales wool, 770 bags 1 flour, 471 bags t wheat; January, .1340 bales wool, 2285 v bags flour, 8300 bags wheat, 600 casks >° wine, tobacco (manufactured and un- Ji manufactured), about 450 , packages, t: Special trains are running to meet the •£ demand, yet, every available; place in t ] Wodonga is used for storage. The bridge l tolls have trebled iri amount. The past S week's* return of merchandise from Vie- 3i toria is not much- over the usual rate. 8 ! ■; Wheat, fell this week from 6a Gd'toj'ti 4a 6d.' ■' -;<■■ ■:.■•' r^ ■ , : . , ,1™