AUSTALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 248, 5 December 1873, Page 3

AUSTALIAN TELEGRAMS.

The North-Eastern Railway line ,has • been opened as far as Wodonga. Dr. L. L. Smith's conduct, as member ! for Richmond, has been brought before Parliament for taking £SOO from- a man named: Armitage, to get his (Armitage's) claims against Government recognised. ( Mrs. Shannon has been tried a third time for the.murder of her child. The jury acquitted her. The ship Dallam Tower has got lier new iron masts fixed in her. A farthing damages wa»'givea against Dr. Hadden for giving a certificate whereby a sane man was sent to the Lunatic Asylum. The Eleven cricket match; is announced to take pl?Cc on Boxing-; day. . ■ ' ;■ ~-■ ■.-• ■ / ._ ;.: The Land Bill, with the Legislative Council's amendments, will be rejected in the Assembly. Tile Mines Regulation Bill has passed. Mr. Coppin stands for the Melbourne constituency. ■Mr. Innes, member for Mudgee, becomes Attorney-General, without a seat in the Cabinet, in Mr. Parkes's Ministry. LATEST CABLEGRAMS. London, November 19. The Cubans have shot fifty-seven more of the Virginia's filibustering-crow. America demands reparation, and threatens extreme measures. England has notified to Spain that without prejudice to any action she may take '"shot,"sne*^Aivuaistf£.p..Jihgiish"who were aay more" are .executed'. ~~ —^ ; Senor Castflar, the president, says he" will maintain the honor and integrity of Spain, but will telegraph to England and America the satisfaction required by international law in reference to the recent execution: of the filibusters.. A British Squadron has been to Cuba. 4 . Twenty-six Englishmen were on boaid 1 the Virginia. --J ■'- Sir Henry James has been appointed Attorney-General, and Mr. Vernon Harcourt to the Post of Solicitor-General. "Dr. Lyon Playfair has been appointed Postmaster-General, .in the room of Mr. Monsell. •.The English at Elmina defeated the ! AshaTitees after a brisk skirmish,, and i burnt fivVvillages. Twenty-eight English • were -woundear--Major-General "Wolseley 1 is advancing in pursuit, of the Ashantee * forces towards Coomassie. s.

The Committee of fifteen have- graved at a resolution prolonging Marshal mahon's powers as President for five years. The Committee propose that Macmahon's title shall 'oe President of Republic. ' | • r f President > Mac in ah on demands seven years' unconditional prolongation ot his powers as President of the Republic as the terms of his re-election. A Colonel has been imprisoned: for three months, for contempt of the Court appointed to try Marshal Bazaine.—'Star.