AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 95, 22 April 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Brisbane, April 15. Official telegrams from Cooktown state tbat several scores of miners rushed the steamer for free passages. The police were required to clear, the ship, when about three score assaulted them. An excited mob, numbering 1000, watohed the affray from the shore, and then ru.bVi aboard and unshipped the stage, and cut off the shore communication. After a struggle -three of the ringleaders were arrested, and order was restored. There has been heavy rain during the last eight day ß,7 and the creeks are flooded, and roads will bs unfit for traffic for s.me time. A nugget weighing 7 ounces was obtained by a Chinaman at Allistou . ... „. £. ]" ' '" Mblboubnb, April 15. , < A woman, whose name is unknown, jumped off Prince's bridge, and was drowned. ..Mr Todd has Had an interview with the treasurer in reference to the reduction of the cable charges. Ihe Government are favorable to the proposition. . Robert Hamilton, for many years clerk to the Court at Flemiogton, died to-day from an overdose of laudanum. Wiley and Nelson, two of the Satsuma ■mutineer- i?ere brought before the Court to-day and .confessed their guile Ihey said ■that the men had iqade the mate drunk and tied him down. They then threw all die ■rifles and firearms overboard. Five only of ihe. men went into the boat. Mr ,1 vets has committed suicide by laying Jhis head bn the rail ray lino. The train cut This bead 1 in two. Buyer, of wheat "offer 6sy holders risk a •p-jnny more.

The following offici.l telegram Ins been received by the Coloniil Secret try from Queensland. The Government have rtciireJ a tilegram from the police Magistiale at Co ktown, which please mado public with tbo view if possible of stopping the pre c eit rush: — " Thee his neon three days rain almost with nit interim ion, aud fuch rain. Large numbers of pjoplc, near y 4000, are in Cooktown,and eaa neither get oa nor b ick. The weather prevents thoße determined to reach the Palmer from going, nnd they are in want of money. There are many who would rather return south. Ihe Government should try every means in their power to stop pople from corning here and crowding into a place where there i? n -thing to do, and which t :ey cannot get out of There are more people here than circumstances justify."