AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 300, 19 December 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

ME&9OPBNB, December 18. New Zeattnd four per wots •*« offered i n

Both Houses of PHrlhment baring stttleJ rtea-iily to business, th( re is • very probability of the session btii;g closed by the end of the year, the only obstacle at present being the rayment of Members B Jl. which comes on for the second r.-ndtn? on Tuesday in the Coum iJ. It will all ill pond on tl;e coarse the Council wilt tnku as to the pro-rgvion. A t.legrara has betn received by the Government from Sir Andrew Cierke stating that O'Farrtlle. the Jand defaulter, ha I bsen arresieJ at S ngapore. It eeeir.s that O'Farrelle entered into a false security an 1 left Noumea, and then proceeinl to Queenstan j, and from thence by the Torres btraiis tteamer to Singapore. A detes-uve has been despatched ti bring him to Melbourne It will, perhaps, be a imtter of surprise to many in New Zealand to know tint the rotorioas murderer Sullivan, wuo was deported some liuje since from that colony, has been arrested in Victoria uadtr tha Criminal Influx Act. In all probability he will ag^in be shipped to New Z-.a'and. Professor Wil'on. of the Melbourne Univemty, died suddenly on the Hth iust. from paralysis The fcllora went ashore on the Pope'a Eye, just insi-ds the Head?, on the 11th inst, snJ was not got eff till the next day. Th? disaster is attribute! to the thickness of the weather. Accounts received from all the districts as to the rfsuit of the o^3ervaiions of ihe transit i of Vencg are geie ally oatisfaetory. A very large number of raiuible ihotOKraphs have been t3ken at neatly a i the stations. Jn New South WhLb the weather was remarkably floe, and the transit was observed under the most favorable circumstances. In Victoria, after the early morniog, the weather cleared, and it was »lao sesa we 1, but In Tasmania it raimd nearly ali day, gnd the results obtained were very few. A case U now before th=» Vice-Admiralty Court relating to a bo-tomry boua over the Lidy F.'ankljn, I elotiging to Mr George lhorne, of Auckland. Thentw Bishop of BaUarat and Archbishop Goold arrived by the mail steamer. Cakobau is returning to Fji in H.MS. Dido, aui wiU not visit Melbourne. The Sydney cricketers leit for Melbourne to play against Victoria on Boxing Day Mr Weld, the new governor of Tasmania, arrived by the mail steamer, but his family remain in Weet Australia at present. Sypnev, December 13. The election for East Sidney resulted ia the return oF Parkes, Macintosh, Sturt, ani Diviep, the fremkr being the only ministerial candidate. Mr FnrncU, the Minister of Lands, was defeated at Tarraniatta. The new Torres Straits rpnil steamer Normanby dude a very gjod passage.

COMMERCIAL. Breadstuffs remain inactive, and prices are unaltered, Oats are decidedly firm, and m more inquiry; sales hare been made up to 03 3d. Very large transactions have been made in the last lew days in candles, over 40,000 boxes having changed hand*. Teas and sugars are stil in good demand. Kennessy's case brandy cold at 283 4Jd; bulk, 7s io ; >d.

SHIPPING. Newcastle.— Saiiei : December 9, barque Corridor lor Nelson, with 360 tons of coal and 50 pieces of timber.