AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 274, 19 November 1874, Page 2

AUSTRA LI A N.

1 (Pjsr Tarabua.)

Melbourne, November 12. The excitement of the r-ce week is now over, and an exodus of strangers has taken place to the other colonies, an 1 to the country districts. The race meeting was, financially, and in respect to attendance, the most successful he dat Fleu ington. £6000 was realised on the Cup <?av alone. Haricot's victory was good for the King, and saved many. ■• , • =.- Me bourne won the Flen. ington Plate of three miles, beating both Goldsboiough and Diver. ■ Gaslight won the Oaks The Parliamentary pneeedings have been without ioterest. The Local Government Bill whs the principal subject of d acusaion. . Governor Boweii has rec ivel six months leave of absence, and proceeds home as s on as Parliament rises ' '" V : The Speaker gave a Pat liamentary banquet last night as a farewell to the Governor and Mr Fiancis. •■' i Drßracy, 1 affc'ra long an 1 lingering ill* nc.-s, has died. Hiß funeral was a very large cjne, nioety vehicles being in the procession. '■ Blondin has'"bem : very unfortunate as rrgards weathtr. On Monday, during a squall, his tent w«s frown down. The Eev J. F. ;Wa'ker; is elected Moderator _pf the Presbyterian Churchy ___ The Marquis of No? manby and family leave Brisbane to-day for Sydney, en route for New Zealand. • ;'..;..../ ' • ; Victoria won the cricket match againgt 18 Adelaide men by 15 runs. Madame Anna Bishop, Mr and Mrs Barrett. Mr Hoskins. and Mis* Col ville returned by the Californian mail. The City of Melbourne arrived thr. c days before her time, having made the passage from Eardavau in six diyg four hours. Two failima are rerorted— Henry MUU, timber merchant, aniWilUam Mitchell & Co, brewers, at Richmond. Stdnby. November 12, The correspondence relative to Fiji is published, and ahowa that Lord Carnarvon made a proposition that four of the Australian Oolonifes, namely, New South Wales, Vicoria, South Australh, and New Zealand, should contribute £4000' annually towards the cost of gov» ruing Fiji. : The Assembly, by a majority of three, rej-cted the motion to grant the late Chief Justice a gratuity of £700. A- disturbance occurred at Inswich between the Roman Catholics and Orangemen, owing to a lecture on «♦ The Monk that shook the world." A free fight ensued, and the police cleared the Hall.