AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 56, 6 March 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

[Per Arawata. J Melbourne, March 1. Sir Charles M'Mahon has declared Mr Berry's apology not sufficient, and he has promised a full statement to the Assembly when re-elected, which, however, seems doubtful. Sir Charles Gavin Duffy is the nominee of the Liberal party for the office. Welcome rains have fallen all over the country. Rain is still very badly wanted in the back country, where cattle and sheep are dying by thousands. William Hastings has been found guilty of murderiug his wife at Frankeston. The principal link in the chain of circumstantial evidence against him was the evidence of his own daughter, aged fifteen, who deposed to having had improper connection with her own father since she was nine years, of age. The prisoner continues to assert his innocence. A combined match Victoria and New South Wales against the English Eleven will be played in the middle of March. The colonists are to play twelve against eleven. ' The Melbourne Meat Preserving Company, taking advantage of the present low price of sheep, is now in full operation. The Bishop of Melbourne is' vjsjting the remote parts of his diocese, and appears to bo wejl liked. It is likely that Bailey and Cooper's menagerie aulj ch.ijs will visit New Zealand after their return from 4-dpMde. They have done splendidly in Victoria. M'Meckan and Blackwood have made important reductions on all passenger rates and freights between Melbourne and New Zealand ports. Mr Gregor Taylor, the principal electrican and representative of the Cable Compauy, is a passenger per Arawata. A three years contract has been entered into between M'Meckan and Blackwood and j.j- e /^tnanian Government for the conveyance _f" motto *> eeween Tasmania and New Zealand.

MR. RAWSON, DENTIST.— The house lately in tbe occupation of Mr Shannon and Mr J. T. Lowe, Bronti-street, off Collingwood-street, back of the Catholic Station. 3824