AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 308, 30 December 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Stdxet, December 23. Sullivan remains in gaol, as the steamship proprietors refuse to carry him to New Zealand. The ship Appeal reports seeing a burning ship soon after leaving Calcutta, name un known. A boat haa been beached near Cape Moreton with two eVident escanes from New Caledonia. They had only* one oar and a make-shift rudder. A spritsnil made of bagging, a jib, and one pound of biscuits, and a pint of water were on board, and no compass, bo she was steered by the sun. The names given are Crone and Bisanot. It has been deuded to open advanced classes for girla in connection with the Brisbane Grammar School,

Victoria, December 23. The Appropriation Bill is passed through a'l Ha stag- s, and toe prorogation will take place on Tuesday. Another woman has committed suicide in the Yarra. She left a note giving her watch and locket to whoever found her body. A commission is appointed for an intercolonial Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne in August, prior to the Philadelphia Exhibition. The schooner Isabe-Ia has arrive 1 at Mickay, in Queensland, from Solomon, islands, and brings the report that the second' mate of tho briar Jane Berni, and a boat's crew had arrived there, and report that the ve3selwas taken by Natives and all hands massacred at Lori Howe's Island. The moonlight concert at Melbaurne in the Botanical Gardens in aid of the Orphan Asylum was a great success. Simpson, of the Epsom branch of the Bank of Victoria, has been arrested on a charge of forgery. Daily telegraphic communication between Singapore and Adelaide is established by means ot n floating s ation. The racehorse Protos has been sold for 260 guineas to Mr Ciibborn.