Australian.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 26, 30 January 1874, Page 2

Australian.

Melbourne, January 24. Governor Bowen has returned from Tasmania. Governor Weld after visiting Ballarat and all places of interest in Melbourne proceeded to Sydney this afteruoon. , Parliament is to be dissolved at the end of February or begining of March. The new Parliament will likely meet after the general election early in May. The' land department is to be thoroughly reorganised by the creation of fresh, branches. The question of tobacco importation over the Sydney border has again arisen in connection with the duties. The English cricketers were received enthusiastically afc Sydney. Play commences to-day. The odds at present are on the Englishmen. ThV'Flintshire has arrived at Brisbane with the Torres Straits mail. An action is commenced to condemn the Aurora for breaches of the Polynesian Labor Act. The Triennial Parliament bill has passed' the second reading in the Upper House.;; Two Solomon Islanders have been committed for trial for murdering the captain and crew of the Pluto. £ It is believed that Mr J. F. Clarke's estate will pay to the Government about '£84,000 on probate duty. He leaves, his Victorian property to his eldest son William, and the New Zealand property to Joseph Clarke. His | wife, bos £300 a year, and the second son is lelt comparatively a poor man. j-. ; ,. Commercial : Wheat is very scarce, and h^s reached to 6s 7d to 6s 8d; flour, £H lOsj oats, a scant supply and little doing at ! 5a 3d to 5s 6d; steady *.bußineßß-iihugar. The latest Mauritius

telegram, dated January 9, states that prices are firm, and with an upward tendency. Th<? William Condell is chartered for Dunedin. Large sales of cornsacks. •Shipping— Arrived : January 23, Prosperity from Hokitika; Sailed : January 23, Lizzie Grey, Seabird, and Alice Maud for West Coast ports. NEWCASTLE. Arrived — January 21, Australind, from Wellington; 22nd, Silver Lining, from New Zealand; Wellington, from Wellington. Sailed : 21st, Australian Sovereign, for Lyttelton; Woodside, for Dunedin.