ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4387, 12 April 1875, Page 4

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

THE SUEZ MAIL. ABBIVAL OF THE TABABUA. [Per Press Agency.] The Bidff, Sunday. The s.s. Tararua, with the English mail via Suez and Melbourne, was sighted at 5.20 p.mabout thirty-five miles off, and arrived at the Heads at nine o’clock p.m. She left Melbourne at seven o’clock, p.m. on the 6th inst., and will sail again at four o’clock to-morrow afternoon for Port Chalmers. Shearings the following news : BEUTEB’S TELEGBAMS. London, March 20. The Queensland mails were delivered yesterday. The s.s. St. Osyth has arrived from Melbourne, via the Cape of Good Hope, in fiftyeight days. April 3. The wheat market is quiet. A million and a-half bushels are en route. Wool is unchanged, hut little business doing. The revenue for the year amounts to £74,500,000. The Pope has exhorted the Prussian bishops to continue their resistance, and vote against Bismarck. Belgium complains of the offensive language of the clerical press. Paris, March 31. A circular by M. Dujaurez is particularly aimed against the Bonapartists. The Propaganda says that the definite establishment of the Bepublic must be respected by all parties.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VICTORIA. Melbodene, April G. Parliament has been summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 25th of May. The Premier and the Postmaster-General were speakers at a public banquet the other night, but vouchsafed no indication of the ministerial policy. The idea is gaining ground that it is the intention to impose taxation, either on property or income. All the Ministers, and some five hundred guests, have gone to Ararat to-day on the occasion of the opening of the railway between Ballarat and Ararat. It is rumored that the Minister of Mines (Mr. Alexander Mackay), who is also Minister of Education, intends to relinquish the former office, and devote himself to the latter. Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, has been on a visit here, and proceeds to Sydney to-day. His sister, en route from British Columbia via the Californian mail steamer Macgregor, left San Francisco on the 30th March. Huslar, the Richmond wife-murderer, has been ordered to be kept in confinement dining the Governor’s pleasure. Mr. Hastings, the American Good Templar, has been lecturing here, but not creating much sensation.

The harvest yield will probably show nearly seventeen bushels to the acre. The vintage also is likely to be good. ■ The season has been very dry until within the last day or two. Shipping. —Arrived, April 3 : Florinda, from Wanganui. The Hero arrived at Sydney on the sth inst.

Commercial. —Very little business is doing. Breadstuffs continue firm. Wheat, 4s. 9Jd. Oats have been sold up to 4s. 4d. for prime. Guinness’s stout and Hennessy’s brandies are in fair demand at a slight advance; and a small advance is also required for Eleme and other raisins, NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 8. The Sydney Cup was run for by six horses, and won by Imperial, with Reprieve second and Lurline third. The race was won pretty. easily by a length. Lurline won the All-aged Stakes, boating a moderate field. At the meeting Sir Hercules Robinson won no less than seven races, and got places in five others. McGrath, a boarding-house keeper, of Grenfels, and his wife, have been committed for trial for the murder of a miner. The Treasurer’s budget shows the revenue for 1874-5 to have been £3,600,000 (1), and the expenditure £3,750,000 (?). No change is proposed this session, but in the next a modified Stamp Act will be proposed, and the tariff will be modified in the direction of free trade.

Murphy, the husband of the woman who was lately poisoned at Shoalhaven, has been committed for the murder of his wife and Mrs. Boland, by poisoning the rum they were drinking. The Government intend to introduce An amended land Bill, to limit selection to 640 acres. Favorable accounts have been received from the Palmer Biver. There is plenty of gold, but the sickly season had set in, and a number of death were reported. The blacks were very troublesome. Great opposition was shown to

the Chinese immigration, and there was likely to be a conflict, as two thousand Chinese miners were on their way to the Palmer.

Shipping. —Arrived at Newcastle on the SJst March, the Duke of Edinburgh, from Dunedin ; 2nd April, Anazi, from Auckland. Sailed—ltaly, for Lyttelton. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, April 6. Mr. Boothby’s harvest statistics state that the area in cultivation under wheat was 809,638 acres, the yield from which was 9,862,693 bushels, or an average of 11 bushels 451bs. per acre. The surplus of breadstuffs available for exportation is 183,000 tons. The Gothenburg fund reaches over £6OOO. H.M.S. Nymphe calls here en route to Sydney. She is expected about the Queen’s birthday. The Chief-Justice is discharging the duties of Governor, during Governor Musgrave’s absence. TASMANIA. Hobarton, April 5. Typhus fever is reported as having broken out on board H.M.S. Barraeouta. She has sailed for Sydney, in consequence of want of hospital accommodation here.