ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.
arrival of the cyphrenes. [Per Press Agency.] Auckland, Friday. Tire Cyphrenes has arrived. She left Sydney on the 10th, and proceeds to San Francisco this evening. She brings the following news ; ENGLISH. London, April" 7. * Germany has sent a note to Belgium, suggesting it should make some alterations in its ' laws, in order- to repress the attack of Ultramontanes. It is intimated that States wishing to preserve the advantage of neutrality should avoid anything tending to affect it. Belgium "replied that the existing laws are sufficient. ■ The Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company has collapsed. A liquidation petition has been presented. The steamship Victoria, announced to leave on the 27th February, has been detained up to the present . time, and the disappointed passengers have appealed to the Lord Mayor for redress. James Hermann Ricci is appointed At-torney-General of Fiji. Arrived ; Ferndale, from New Zealand, and Christian McAusland. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. VICTORIA. Melbourne, April 8. The quarterly revenue returns amount to £909,2/6, a decrease on the quarter of £97,000, and on the year of £65,000. The great falling-off is in customs, excise, and terrl- ’ torial duties. The revenue for the year amounts to £3,955,800. The Minister of Education, in opening the State school at Brighton, said arrangements had been made with a literary man to write a History of Australia. The Bendigo Advertiser states that it is informed that C. E. Jones has been crushed to death in a railway carriage in America. The revenue for nine months shows £217,000 below the estimates. The Government of Tasmania has agreed to join in the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse on King’s Island. Rain is badly wanted in the country. Tie sheep are suffering from lack of it. Martell’a old dark brandy is sold at 7s. 4Jd. ; New Zealand oats, 4s. 3d. Large finds of gold at Creswick have caused excitement. The March land sales are 51,600 acres, at an average of £1 4s. 3d. an acre. Wheat 4a., unchanged. Market quiet. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 10. A fire at Young destroyed nine business premises ; loss, £20,000. Fifteen thousand visitors attended the Exhibition yesterday. QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, April S. A woman bled to death last night, when fetching beer. She slipped in the street, falling on the jug, which cut her neck. The not increase t of revenue for the past quarter is nearly £SOOO. The expenditure exceeded the revenue by £45,000. The Leichardt, en route from Cooktown, brings nearly 1000 ounces of gold. The blacks cruelly murdered Conn, a settler, forty miles from Caldwell, and carried his wife off to the hush. Two steam winches and a quantity of effects marked with the names of passengers, have been recovered from the wreck of the Gothenburg.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4392, 17 April 1875, Page 2
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455ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4392, 17 April 1875, Page 2
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