LATE AUSTRALIAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 28, 13 June 1877, Page 2

LATE AUSTRALIAN.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] PEE WAKATIPU, AT WELLINGTON. Mblboubne. Colonel Ward returns on the expiration of his leave of absence, and Colonel Scratohley remains here permanently as deputy««master of tho Mint. Dr Macartney will be petitioned against on the ground that ho is ineligible, being a minister of religion. Tho conference of vignerons has resolved that the Government be petitioned to use the best ondeavours to obtain the repeal of tho duties on native vrines between Victoria and tbo other colonies. The bank forgers have been committed for trial. Rawson made a full eonfes* sion, showing a regular System of forgery. The Simonson Opera Company opened on the sth instant, at St. George's Hall, to a good house. The following entries have been made for the Victorian Racing Club's Spring Meeting :— Melbourne Cup, 114 Melbourne horsos, 23 from Sydney ; Champion Stakes, 53 from Melbourne, 8 fiom Sydney. Seventy-eight nominations for Victorian Dorby and Oaks ; Metropolitan | Stakes, 49 entries. j The Government has not yet appointed its representative- in .the Legislative Council. The population of the Colony of Vio* toria is 843,877, of Melbourne, 244,508. Apel&ipe. Twenty justices of the peace have tent in their joint resignations, because of the recent appointments for political purposes. The Government hat declined to aeeept. A young man, bank clerk, named Boot died from the effects of injuries received from a ball. Sydney. Sir Wm. Jerroise and Colonel Bemtehley left for Melbourne on the 6thinst. BMsmurx. Eight hundred and forty tons mileheeter : on being crashed yielded 207&>2s of .gold, j The Warden reports that the reefs at Normanby are rank duffers. The secretary of the Rifte Association has suggested to the Rifle Association of England to send a team to Australia every second year. Further forgeries to a large extent are reported.