LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 172, 18 July 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, July 11. — The Legislative Council notify their intention not to revise the Payment of Members Act. The new Electoral Bill gives a vote to female ratepayers. Morley, carrier, ex-Mayor of Sandridge, is committed for trial for perjury, Tho present Mayor has been fined for abusive language. A woman at Sandhurst has been blown to pieces drying gunpowder at a fire. The Eoman Catholics protest loudly against the Papal bull as interpreted by the priests, forbidding laity to belong to benefit societies, and declare their loss by a withdrawal will be £100,000. Smart and Phillips, executors of Jacobswill, are committed for trial for making away with property, leaving the children of the deceased to bo arrested by the police as neglected infants. The Budget speech estimates the revenue at nearly £4,250,000 ; the expenditure at £4,172,000. The iron-moulders' strike continues. A million loan is proposed for railways in Gippsland. Sydney, July 11. — Mr Hay is the new President of the Council. The decrease in the gold yield is £121,000. Tho new loan is taken up ai par; £69,000 at 95 to 95£. The minimum was 95. Gibson, the old pilot, is dead. The question of the Californian boats calling at Moreton Bay is unsettled. Adelaide, July 11. — The year's revenue was £464., 000. Brisbane, July 11. — Brisbane will be the terminus of the Torres Straits' line. Fever and diptheria of a dangerous type are prevalent. Moonta, July 11. — Importation of New Zealand stock is prohibited. Hobarton, July 11. The Government had a majority of four on the no-confideuce motion. The Ministerial position is weak. Port Darwin, July 11. A newspaper is projected. The mining prospects are good.