LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1997, 31 December 1874, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PER CYPHRENES.

[ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Sydney, Dec. 23. Sullivan remains in gaol, as all steamship proprietors refuse to convey him to New Zealand. The ship Appeal reports seeing a burning ship soon after leaving Calcutta, name unknown. A boat was beached near Cape Moreton with two evident escapes from New Caledonia. They had only one oar, a makeship rudder sprit. sail and jib, lib biscuits, and a pint of water on board, and no compass. They were steering by the sun. The names given are Crone and Bus'not. It is decided to open advanced classes for girls in connection with the Brisbane Grammar School. The Victorian Appropriation Bill passed all its stages. The prorogation takes place on Tuesday. Another woman has committed suicide in the Itarra, She left a note, giving her watch and locket to whoever found her. A Commission is appointed for an Intercolonial Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne in August, prior to the Philadelphia Exhibition. Seventeen boxes of silk grain have been shipped from Brisbane to England. The schooner Isabella arrived at Mackay, Queensland, from Solomon Island. She brings a report that the second mate of the brig James Birni and a boat's crew arrived there, and report that a vessel was taken by the natives and all hands massacred at Lord Howe's Island. A moonlight concert in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, in aid of the Orphan Asylum, was a great success. Simpßon, of the Epsom branch of the Bank of Victoria, has been arrested ou a charge of forgery. Daily telegraphic communication with Singapore and Adelaide is established by means of floating. The stallion race horse Protos has been sold for 260 guineas to Mr Clibborn.