AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 114, 14 May 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

. Sydnet, May 6. , The City of Adelaide is chartered for the CaliforhiaQ service, owing to the large number of passengers offering. : The iviongol delivered her mails yesterday. She encountered a fearful hurricane after leaving Kandavau. . .' Mr Wood, the late Premier of Fiji, is reported to be a passenger by the Mongol, though his name is not in the list. ' . The Victorian detective despatched to arrest O'Farrell at Noumea has returned without Mm. » The Torres Straits mail steamer has arrived, and proceeds hence to Melbourne, where the future terminus of the line is likely to he fixed. ' " The proposed liberation of Gardiner, the bushranger, is causing great excitement. A public. meeting will be held to-night to protest. H.M.S. Challenger leaves in a fortnight to sound the New Zealand cable route. In the meantime she does the preliminaries close to , thiH coast. . ; : . . --. .■ '. -. Melbourne, May &v ;■ Parliament meets on the 19tli. : :.-; The body of a Chinaman, much mutilated, V has been found in the bush at the Woolshed, a shocking murder having been committed. Deceased had apparently been dead for a /week. •-' i 3.u..<i „ .-,. : : - ,j<: v - : -.-: -Wilson, grain and produce _ dealer, has ■Qaljed a meeting of his creditors, liabilities, • - TJiex master {liiitnMHpi^ ;>.rateof wages shalgb^^g d^^igighp^

A large number of passengers left in the Wentworth to go by the mail steamer. ! Queensland, May 6. At Georgetown the blacks have killed some men near Craigil. Grtat anxiety prevails, and Gottgh's troopers have gone in search. Several reefs have been taken up lately, but labor is scarce. Adelaide May '6. The Treasurer said that the Government proposed expending £30,000 in [assisting 5000 people on the free immigration plan. He also gave notice of a proposition to raise a loan of £600,000 for the new railway agreed to last session. The Banks have raised the rate of interest and discount one per cent.