LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1783, 23 April 1874, Page 2

LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LATEST FROM PALMER. MINERS RUSHING RETURN STEAMER FOR PASSAGES. [ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Auckland, April 22. Brisbane, April 14. Official telegrams from Cooktown state that several scores of miners rushed a steamer for free passages. The aid of the police was required to clear the ship, when, they were assaulted by about 60. An excited crowd, numbering 1000, watched the affray from the shore, and rushing aboard unshipped the staging, cutting off communication with the shore. After a struggle three of the ringleaders were arrested, and order was finally restored, j Heavy rains have occurred during the last eight days. The creeks are flooded, and the road will be unfit for traffic for some time. A nugget, weighing 7oz, has been obtained by some Chinamen at Charleston. Melbourne, April 14. A woman whose name is unknown, jumped off Princes Bridge, and was drowned. Todd had an interview with the Treasurer with reference to reduction of cable charges. Government favorable to proposition. Robert Hamilton, many years Clerk of the Course at Flemington, died to-day from an overdose of laudanum. Wiley and Nelson, two of the Satsuma mutineers, were brought before the Court to-day. They confessed their guilt, and said the men made the mate drunk and tied him down, and threw all rifles and firearms overboard. Five men only went into the boat. Mr Ivett committed suicide by laying his head on the railway line. The train ! cut the head in two. Buyers of wheat offer 6s ; holders ask one penny more. The following official telegram has been received by the Colonial Secretary from the Queensland Government. The ideogram is from the Police Magistrate, Cook^ town : — " Please make public, with view possible stopping present rush. Three days' rain, almost without intermission j such ' rain ; large iiutn bera of people at Cooktown . nearly 4000 ; can never got on nor back. Weather prevents those determined to reach Palmer from going. Want money ; many who would rather return South ; Government try every means stop people from coming here ; crowding into place j nothing to do ; which cannot get out of. There are more people here than circumstances justify.