Australian Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 783, 2 May 1870, Page 3

Australian Items.

A Melbourne telegram dated 16th Aoril, states that a new gold-field has been discovered near Mansfield. An Adelaide telegram dated 17th April says : —The Lady Fergusson, coasting cutter, foundered off Aiding, on Saturday. The crow were saved. There have been more floods in Gippsland, but on the 18th the waters were receding. At nooo on the 20th April the whole of the Victorian Ministers were declared to be re* elected. They were all unopposed. Mr Michie had the option of five seats, but chose Ballarat; a requisition to him having been signed by one thousand electors of that district. A Melbourne telegram of the 20th April states: —A ploughman uneerthed a sixty-ounce nugget at Bullarook whilst ploughing in his farm. From Victoria we hear of seasonable weather, and grass everywhere abundant. An Adelaide telegram of the 16th April reports that Captain Osborne has made a proposition to the Government to construct a telegraph line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, or Port Darwin to the [Eastern Border ; he is not committed to the Queensland route, and has no connec tion with Mr Fraser's scheme. A late Adelaide telegram says that the members of the Northern Territory expedi tion are petitioning the Government on the matter of the bonus promised them, and the bad quality of the rations served out. The Gulnare was to sail for the district on Monday with Captain Douglas as Government Resident, drawing for the order of selection would probably take place at Adelaide. A Brisbane telegram of the 14th April states that Maxwell, the lighthouse-keeper at Cape Moreton, has been washed off the rocks and drowned. A Bockhampton telegram, 20th April, reports :—Alderman Davies's wife was found dead on her bedroom floor last night; a post mortem examination was held by three doctors this morning. D avies has been arrested on suspicion of foul play, while under the influence of drink; the inquest will be held to-morrow.