AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 39, 14 February 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

f,.r,;... -,.: Melbourne, Feb, 7. Tlie. Governor, after an absence of more than a week returned to town, having^ ei^lored the Gippsland distric^ ifi^bnipaDy with the Minister of

Bishop Perry proceeds to England by the next mail. '=' He intends to resign. The Episcopal Chufch Assembly constituted the colony, a province and raised the bishop's stipend to £2000 a year. ;.,,!.■*■. ' ''•■"' -... Terrible murders have been committed near Avoca, by a boot and shoe maker named Porter, who cut the throals of threo of his children and hung himself to the rafter in his own house. Owing to the riots ip Launcestonj Governor Ducane will "' probably postpone visiting New Zealand. N.J.T. Clarke's will has been proved. His Victorian properties are worth over a million and a half. Joseph Clarke ib left the New Zealand properties. An insolvent debtor, named Stonman, was arrested on hoard the Essex at the Heads; : ": . .•.::• '•. w'• , ■■ ';. . The land department is mak>ng a vigorous crusade against immigration. John Hunter Kerr, an old colonisf, is dead. Mr Tail's McCallum More Inspector, Won the Geelong Gold Cup after a splendid race. The steamer Great Britain takes to England over 600 passengers. , The approaching elections are beginning to excite attention l ' li The 1 chief Secretary stated that the Government policy will contain no .uncertain sound but be uncDialakeable. The firm of J. S. Campbell, & Co , wine merchants, has suspended. : The liabilities are £10,000. Sydney. Mr Hume reports seeing fifteen camels near the telegraph line «five months ago, which were supposed to belong to Warburton and party. He believes the latter, are lost. ; By the Sheep Disease Act, the contribution is reduced to 10s. per hundred. In an accident to a boating party in the harbour, a young man had his arm shattered by a gun explosion; Launcestoo, February 7. The Government are arranging to quell the riots. The mob perambulated the town and broke the windows and fences. Special constables were sworn in, and 100 were sent from Hobarton.