AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 203, 17 January 1873, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE. Viscount Canterbury leaves for England in the steamer Mooltan on February 28th. Sir George Bowen will remain a short 'time in /Sydney before assuming the GoA r ernorsnip of Victoria. A telegram was received on N~ew Year's Day from the staff of the London ' Daily Telegraph ' wishing a happy new year to their Australian colleagues of the Press. The delegates to the Intercolonial Conference leave here for Sydney about the 16th. The postponement of the Conference was to give time for the Western Australian delegates to arrive. Messrs Bright Bros. & Co. have received a further telegram implying that the death of Captain Gray, of the Great Britain, was the result of an accident rather than suicide.

Tiiere are sliips in all tlie Australian ports loading grain for England. 15,000 bales of wool have been sold during tlie month.. A decline took place in all sorts, ranging from -Jc! to 2d. A meeting of "wool growers, held yesterday, agreed to the abolition of drafts on London for sold wool. Edward B. Young, manager of the Oriental Bank at Castlemaine, has~ been arrested on' a charge of embezzling the Bank's money. He was remanded on the morning of the 4th, being allowed bail. The deficiency stated in the warrant was £lollos.

There is a request out for the detectives' to hunt up Donald Brown, a relative of John Brown, the Queen's • attendant. We (A.nglo-Australian Telegraph Agency) have it on undoubted authority, that he went home by the Northumberland on her last trip. News from Fiji say that it is rumoured that King Cakobau will invite the pro-

tection of America or G-ermany against British, interference. - ADELAIDE. Miss llichman, the future Lady Fergus son, has sailed for London. Captain Hughes, her brother-in-law, who accompanied her, before leaving executed a deed of, gift of £20,000 to the proposed University. M'ELinlay, the explorer, is dead. Two reef claims on the Yam Creek have changed hands at £2OOO each. SYDNEY. Six Prime Ministers will be present at the Conference to-be held in Sydney. It is probable that another charge will be preferred against Mount and Morris. The exports of gold for the year show a deficiency of 195,000 ounces of Victorian gold, and 154,000 ounces of New Zealand gold.