AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 164, 9 July 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE. July 3. — The New Zealand loan continues to move off slowly at 91. The" coal, iron, and plumbago mines at the Buller and Collingwood begin to attract attention here, but reliable details are wanting. The three gFand marriages, in which each sister is supposed to be doweried with £3000, an indefinitely postponed. The Ministerial position is assured, A collision probable between the Judicature and the Government re Stawell jumping cases. Oats, at auction on Monday fetched 4s 8d to ss. The lights have arrived for the pile lighthouse at Arthur's seat. Two trustees under the will of one Jacobs have misappropriated £4000. Jacobs's children have been sent to the industrial school as neglected children. The Government are prosecuting the trustees criminally. Governor Bowen and been feted at Geelong. The Cape route is being discussed. A university exhibition has been established for engineering. G-ilsonj accountant at the National Bank, has been committed for trial. The movement at Adelaide is encouraged by Kiverine to take the wool by railway from Adelaide to Manmiri,

Puerperal fever continues to make severe ravages. The iron moulders' strike continues. A branch of Anglo-Jewish Association has been formed at Melbourne. Country flour at auction, £13 17s 6d. The Great Australian Goldmining Company announce a capital of £200,000 to work the Tambaroora mine. Arrived: Helen Denny, from LyMelton ; Christian M'Ausland, from Port Chalmers. ADELAIDE. The Wesleyan Mission will proceed to Port Dalrymple. The City of Adelaide arrived from London with 82 assisted emigrants. Wheat quiet, unaltered. The Adelaide Government will continue the branch service to the Sound if Victoria asks too much, calling at Glenelg. Trial surveys are ordered for railway to Murray. A prospectus has been issued for working the Seymour Coal Mine, SYDNEY. It is rumoured that an expedition will be equipped to prospect New Guinea. The Basilisk seamen are showing gold in quartz bronght from New Guinea. Cross, a steward of the Rifleman, when about to be hanged, fainted on the scaffold. The Queensland, from Newcastle to Dunedin, put into Jervis' Bay, leaky. Mail advices unsatisfactory to holders. The Newcastle miners have withdrawn their notice lo strike. TASMANIA. Wheat inactive, 6s to 6s 3d. PORT DARWIN. The cartage to the mines is £100 per ton. HOB ART TOWN. The Treasurer announces a sucplus of £6000 for the current year.