AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 220, 12 September 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE. September 3 —Several of the passengers and crew of the Dallam Tower have brought charges of neglectof: duty. against Captain Davis on the 14th and 15th July, the days during which the : gale which dismasted the vessel was most severely felt. Numbers of the paesengera write to the Argus testifying that the safety of the vessel was due to the first and second officers. James Hayes has been remanded on a warrant to New Zealand, charged with larceny as a bailee of £150 obtained from the Bank of New South Wa^es at New Zealand.. . Prisoner said he had only corae here to see some creditors. The Council has rejected the Electoral Bill, and an early dissolution is probable. South Australia agrees to the Suez mail proposals. Wardill, the defaulter, is still at large. The Bishop of Melbourne proposes an amalgamafion of total abstainers and temperate drinkers to suppress drunkenness. JMr Jack, the public librarian, is dead. . The Stawell mining difficulty still excites grave apprehensions. The first bar of iron just made here from New Zealand ore is very successful. _" ' ', y SYDNEY' Large quantities of coal are arriving from the Lithgow Valley beyond the Zigzag, and sre selling at one-third the price of Newcastle. Brunolio won the Derby, Excelsior 2, JEire- ,; works 3. . Commodore Stirling has prohibited the issue of licenses for carrying labor from Fiji. . „ ADELAIDE. Sixty-seven immigration agencies have baen established in Great Britain for this Colony. . .Wheat firm at 6b 4sd. QUEENSLAND Parliament is dissolved. The Cardwell sugar" crop promises large returns. .: *; ; TASMANIA. . The severe weather has damaged the crops.