LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 251, 23 September 1865, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By the steamship Albion we have news to the 2nd September. The news is not very important. The Melbourne correspondent of the * Daily Times,' says :—"The financial and political deadlock which existed here at the date of my recent communication, so far from having come to a termination, has, if possible, become still more complicated and difficult of solution. At that time, so far as was known to the public, there were but two parties to the strife; but now the third branch of the Legislature—namely, the Representative of her Majesty —has personally stepped upon the scene, aud rightfully demanded to be allowed to take a part in the extraordinary drama which is being enacted in our midst. It will be remembered that the Legislative Assembly had adopted an Address to his Excellency, praying him to cause such measures to be adopted as should, in the opinion of his advisers, be an expedient for paying the salaries of the Civil servants, and for satisfying the liabilities of the Treasury in general. Iu reply to this Address, which was duly presented, his Excellency forwarded a message to each House exposing his views thereon. A perusal of this remarkable document will show that Sir Charles Darling refuses to sanction any appropriation of the public moneys without the cor sent of the three branches of the Legislature; and that he recommends a conference of the two Houses, with a view to the settlement of the points in dispute between them. * * * It is not improbable that the country will ultimately be appealed to by a general election." The Melbourne correspondent of the ' Star' writes:—"The strange conduct, to use no stronger term, of one of the associates of their Honors the Justices of the Supreme Court, has at length resulted in the retirement from office of that gentleman. As the matter will probably become public, it is not necessary to more particularly refer to is now. A son of Charles Dickens' the novelist, has been appointed to the vacant post. Mr Dickens came to the coiouy a few weeks since, bringing with him letters of introduction to leading men iu the colony." The Melbourne * Argus' reports the proceedings consequent on the confession of embezzlement by the bank clerk, Etheridge, who was lately arrested in Auckland, after having been long pursued in England by the detective police. It will be remembeaed that Etheridge escaped from Queenscliff, eluded the constable sent after him to England, went to America, returned to England, took ship to Auckland, and was there apprehended in consequence of a photograph of which the police were in possession. At his trial he pleaded guilty and made a most submissive appeal for mercy. The bank by which he was prosecuted asked that a Umient sentence might be passed. He was adjudged two years' imprisonment—hard labor being remitted in consequence of his delicate health. The ' Wallaroo Times,' in its summary for England, says:—"Our material progress is satisfactory. The mines are keeping up a good supply of ore. The Smelting Works have turned out a large quantity of copper. Buildings are rising all over the place. The population is increasing, and business, although at present dull, has been healthy throughout the month. The Moonta Railway is progressing, and a large quantity of the rails have arrived; but it cannot be completed for several months yet."

TELEGRAMS. (From the Melbourne Argus.) Sydney, Sept. 1. Several quartz reefs have recently been discovered near Tambaroora, and are yielding richly. Fat cattle are becoming very scarce, and the best quality are now worth £B. The Supreme Court has granted a * habeas corpus,' on behalf of Cawley, arrested for escaping from the Wangaratta lock-up. The 1 habeas' has been granted, on the ground that his apprehension was without a warrant.

The overland route from Nelson to the West Coast goldfields seems to be, judging from the following paragraph extracted from the 'Colonist,' in no very enviable condition:— il SVe are informed by his Honor the Superintendent that it is necessary to warn those who purpose going overland to the Grey.from Nelson, that in this season of the year there is great danger to travellers from the flooding of rivers on the route. Men get trapped between two rivers, which it is impossible to cross after rains, and they can neither get back nor forward. Provisions there are none, and their own stock is soon exhausted, and starvation becomes imminent. Before leaving the Grey River, his Honor saw a man who came down the river on two totara logs, lashed together with flax and creepers. The man had left his mates a long distance up the river, trapped in the manner we have described. Starvation was staring them all in the face, and this man determined to trust to the chances of the river, rather than the certainty of starvation which he declared must have befallen them where they were. He reports the bush through which he travelled to be excessively dense, and the progress exceedingly slow. We shall look with interest for the reports of the arrival of the parties of diggers, who, to the number of about 150, have gone overland within the last ten days."