LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 125, 11 July 1868, Page 4

LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE. The Gothenburg brings dates to the 25th June, from Melbourne, The Queensland news is encouraging, rich reefs being discovered daily. Judge Boothby died on the 22nd, aged G 5 years. Compton committed for trial. Spiers has been acquitted. The distribution of the Garraville Stud, by lottery, has been stopped by the New South Wales Government. Breadstuff's market steady—flour, £2O to £2l; 5,000 bushels of New Zealand wheat at 9s. Yictorian, 9s. 3d. to 9s. 6d. —no buyers. Sugars advancing in price. The damaged cargo of the Heather Bell sold at 30s. advance on late sales. Several petitions have been sent to the Assembly, asking a vote for supplies, but their reception refused, as being contrary to standing orders. Miss Sutton, daughter of his Excellency the Governor, was married to Mr. Bright, at Toorak, on the 21st, by the Bishop of Melbourne. There were ten bridesmaids, and the ceremony passed off with great eclat. The Customs authorities at Sydney seized £3,000 worth of goods, imported by a leading firm, being invoiced below the real worth. The Premier has presented £4OO to Mr. Viall, as a memento of his courage in securing O’Farrell on the late attempt to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh. Dibbs and Co. have filed their schedule. Yesterday the Dunedin escort brought down 8,249 ounces of gold. The Sladen Ministry is still in office, but the Opposition is harassing it in such a way as to leave little doubt of its forthcoming downfall. The Ministry would only be too glad to allow the vexed question of the Darling Grant to be settled by being passed in a separate bill, but the M‘Culloch party are determined not to consent to such a compromise, and will hear of nothing but the item being included in the General Appropriation Bill, On the 17th, the standing orders of the Assembly were suspended, in order to enable Mr. M'Culloch to move that the supplies be passed for the year 1867, as granted by the Assembly, and praying his Excellency to recommend the purpose in a message. The motion was carried without a division. The result will be that the Governor and the Assembly will be brought face to face without the intervention of the Executive. The grant of land to Roman Catholics at Eastern Hill has been revoked. Sharp discussions on the subject have taken place in the Assembly. Silver, ore has been found near Rockhampton. An address, together with a wig and gown, have been presented to Mr. Hackett by the Melbourne solicitors. Alexander M £ Ewan, of M‘Ewan and Co., is dead. The trial of Shires, the snake experimenter, resulted in his acquittal. The Melbourne Hospital liabilities are estimated at £14,000. There is a special appeal to the public for subscriptions. One hundred pounds was presented to

Dooley’s widow by the Williamstown volunteers. - Branch societies of the Constitutional Association are being formed everywhere. Business is dull. Flour is quoted at £22 for trade parcels. Downer’s kerosene is in demand at Is. lid. A rise in salt is expected. New Zealand wheat has been sold at 9s. 3d. per bushel. SYDNEY, June 17.—Mr. McDonald, the late manager of the Commercial Bank at Young, has been acquitted of the charge of embezzlement, on which he had been arrested. The friends and admirers of Mr. Macpherson, M.L.A., whose name has recently been so prominently before the public in connection with the assault case, in which Mr. Lee, M.L.A., also figured, and who successfully demurred to the right of the Supreme Court to interfere in a case which occurred within the walls of Parliament, entertained him last evening in the parliamentary refreshment room. Messrs. L. E. Threlkeld and Co., the auctioneers, have filed their schedule. Their liabilities amountto nearly £130,000, and their assets are set down at £SO! Advices from the Northern districts of Queensland report the continued outrages by the blacks are becoming very alarming to settlers in the outlying stations. Private letters from the Gulf of Carpentaria state that Mr, Manson, a squatter,, and a party of Chinamen, have been murdered by the blacks near Norman Eiver. ADELAIDE. June 17.—Mr. Dahlke, the inventor of the patent filters, who has been submitting his invention to the tests of public experiment, was found dead in his bed this morning, at the Globe Hotel. A postmortem examination has been made to-day, but the result has not transpired. It is believed, however, that the immediate cause of death was the excitement caused by the failure of his latest experiments acting on a highly sensitive and nervous temperament. As far as can be gathered, it would appear that the secret of the new filter is likely to be lost through Mr. Dahlke’s sudden demise. Notices of appeal to the Privy Council have been served upon Colonel Hamley, the Acting-Governor, by Mx-. Boothby, late Judge of the Supreme Court. The appeal is made against the action of the Executive, and of Parliament, in dismissing him from his office. The Government have determined, among other retx-enchments, to reduce the •expenditure in connection with the Volunteer force. Two ingots of pure silver, the produce of five tons of stuff, have been lodged in the Bank here. The stone from which this silver Was obtained was the refuse taken from an old mine near Adelaide. It has transpired to-day that in two days a parcel of 2,000 bushels of wheat changed hands here at Bs. per bushel. The quality of the wheat is not publicly known. To-day the markets have been quiet.— Wellington Evening Post.