AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue XIV, 31 March 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Arawata at the Bluff.) Melbocbne, March 26. Some little scandal has been occasioned by the Government obtaining telegram sin reference to the Embassy and other matters interesting to the colony, and giving them solely to tbe Age.. That journal, it is alleged and not denied, has used the telegrams supplied to them by the Government as coming from their own London agent. Tbe Governor appears to be making himself very popular. To-day he pays a visit to Sandhurst. Lady Normanby is not sufficiently recovered to receive visitors. The want of rain is severely felt all over the colony, and probably many settlers will have soon to leave their houses to search for water. Tbe rain totals for the year are far below the average of former years. The weather has been again quite as hot as the middle of summer. - , W u U!iam Dutton . B A - of Trinity College, Melbourne, has gained the classical scholarship at the Melbourne University. The Princess Theatre has been purchased by a Company for £10,000 in 200 shares of £50 each. It is said half the required capital has been privately subscribed. Young trout have been seen in the Yarra evidently making their way to sea. Twenty thousand salmon ova for Sir Samuel Wilson arrived per Durham, and will be placed in the Ballarat waters. At the inquest on Scott, found murdered on Murphy'B flat near Dunolly, an open verdict was returned. There is no trace of the murderer. A sum of £24 was found under the floor of deceased's hut. William Cook, the champion billiardist, arrived to-day accompanied by Dampier.