AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 30 May 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

SYDNEY. May 24. — Numbers of_ diggers are leaviug Efheridge, Queensland, for Port Darwin overland. The Victoria has arrived from Auckland. The New South Wales four per cent loan will be launched in a week. Mr Selwyn has been cordially received, and leaves in the Hero for Auckland. At a convention between the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria the suspension of lhe border duties for three years was agreed to. - Instructions have been sent by each Government to their Customs officers on the Murray. To-day was observed as a partial holiday in opposition to the proclamation of the Government ; postponing the celebration of the Queen's birth- . day to Wednesday next. Mount and Morris, charged with the Carl atrocities, haye been sent to serve their sentences of hard labor at Pentridge. The new electoral bill gives one member to each 10,000 of the population. The> libel action against the Herald came on to day. The mail steamer left yesterday. Four passengers refused to be vaccinated. The second officer remains in quarantine. Miss Hattie Shephard haß been presented with a diamond bracelet. > In the libel case oi Atridge versus Evening Herald, a verdict was found for the plain tiff, damages £45. A young man named Bennett, clerk to Bennett and Allenborough, solicitors, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement- of a sum a little short of £1000. The Geelong and Western Districts Agricultural Society will hold an intercolonial champion ploughing match early in July. They offer prizes amounting to £160. 'Four thousand cases of J.D, JK, Z. geneva sold at 15s. Oats, 4s 8d; barley much wanted at 4b 3d to 4s 8d; maize, 4b 6d, and likely to advance; 330 . barrels of cement taken by the Government relieved the market, quoted at 20s ; flour, =613 10s for large parcels; wheat, prime, 6s Id; 130 tons of salt have been sold at an advance. The breadstuffs exported during the week amounted to 1670 tons, making for the year 101,670 tons.