AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 191, 13 August 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Peb Victoria.] Sydney, August 4. Kingsbury is a strong favorite for ibe Hawkeabury Guineas, aod Dagworth for the Handicap. Tasmania, August 4. The Colonial Treasurer estimates the revenue for 1874 at £265,000, and for 1375 at £311,006, and the expenditure for public works at £16,000. The A.S.N. Company have declared a dividend of 12£ per cent. The steamer City of Adelaide is again chartered (or the San Francisco mail service. She will leave Sydney for Auckland on the 14th August, aod convey tbe outward mails. ThaJTartar, now on ber way from San Francisco, is to be sent back to China. Tbe Cyphrenea will be tbe next through steamer. Melbourne, August 4. Tha Government Astronomer thinks tbat tbe comet now visible ie 1 not Coggia's. _^ Gardiner, the bushranger, has been sent to Hong Kong; kj. One hundred and thirty men -ire thrown out of employment at the Moonta mine, causing great, dissatisfaction. '..,''. [Per Omeo]:. ; Melbourne, August 5. The Aeserably met yesterday, when Mr KerforJ detailed the circumstances of the Ministerial reconstruction. He stated tbat ihey would follow the policy of the last administration but did not intend to send the Reform Bill to the Upper House. Tbe Bill would, however, be submitted early next session, and the present session be brought to a close as soon as posssible. The statement waa not received with much favor Mr Langton then .explained his reasons for withdrawing from the Government, the principal of which was tbe di.agreemen. between himself and Mr Caßey on the question of expenses for journeying about the country which he declined to sanction, and a general expose was afforded to the House, which subsequently formed the subject of debate in the Council, when Sir Francis Murphy and others severely censured tbe action of tbe Government in illegully putting into office a Chief Secretary with a Coramisaion. The Miniaterial prospects are not bright, and the tariff question ia likely to prove troublesome. Frederick Koch has been sentenced to death for a mutder committed ten years ago. A boy, six years of ace, bas committed suicide near Woodonga by shooting himself, because he was threatened to be given in charge for theft. A decree of nullity of marriage has been granted in the Bishop case. Robert Rice, charged with making falsa entries io the log-book, has been discharged. In the Fillgate and Thomson case a verdict was given for the plaintiff with damages £20. )''- Over £.000 were netted at the last Spring meeting of the Racing Club.