LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4991, 22 March 1877, Page 3

LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

One days later hews is-'tp, hand l>y the Easby, which arrived' yesterday. Thefollowing are the priucipalitems : . ; CooKTOWN, March 14. ' The E. and A. Company’s steamer Killarney, from Hongkong 27th ultimo, arrived here yesterday. She .brings 760 Chinese, and 200 Tons chow chow freight. Captain O’Neill reports the beacon at the R reef, in the Straits, as being down. The .steamer stranded, but was floated after throwing overboard 250 tons of coal. Very extensive ! Chinese emigration to Queensland is expected, in consequence of reports received at Hongkong from the Chinese in this colony as to the richness of the Northern goldfields. Melbourne, March ! 4. A writ for £SOOO damages has been issued against Mr. Graham Berry by Mr. B. 6. Davies, Chairman of Committees, for slander.. The Minister of Railways at Birreg rra yesterday expressed himself as being individually in favor of running,Sunday trains ; but he said that the majority of the representatives of the people in Parliament were against it. • ■ ~ , , . Adelaide, March 14. The cable steamer Kangaroo is now engaged laying down the shore-end of the Eastern Extendon Telegraph Company’s cable, which is to connect Penang with Rangoon, duplicate communication; between India and Penang. ■ The main cable will be paid out on the arrival of the steamer Hibernia, and it is expected will be completed by the 28th inst. 6s. 4d. is asked for large parcels of wheat ; but there are no purchasers. Small lots are quoted at 6s. 2d. to 6s. 3d. 300 tons of town flour sold, for shipment to Africa, at £ls free on board. 20,000 bushels of wheat sold at 6s. 3djd. on wharf; and 20,000 at 6s. 3d. Hobakton, March 14.

Additional correspondence between the Judges and the Governor has been published, proving that the memoranda of Ministers, in reply to the Governor's and Judges’ observations, purporting to have been forwarded to the Governor in the order of date, were never seen by him or by the Judges until printed with the Governor’s and Judges’ letters, and that an important memo, from the Governor, exposing this, has been suppressed. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) Michael Sheehy, a stonemason, died from sunstroke while working at a house at Bushcutter Bay. It was stated in a case tried at the District Court th .t a young man in the Lands Office, in the receipt of a salary of £l5O per annum, was also receiving from £2O to £3O per month for overtime. The Royal Sydney Yacht Club contested in a handicap race for the silver cup, value £4O, presented by Mr. Caird. Mistral won, and Magic took the second prize. There were six yachts in the race. The Rev. Canon Sharpe, one of the oldest residents of Bathurst, died in that town on February 28, at the age of 79 years. The Volunteer Artillery have had their first drill at the 80-pounder rifle grins at the Middle Head Fort. They acquitted themselves well. A navvy was bitten by a snake near Wallacetown, and he fell soon after into a state of coma. Dr. L illias injected into a vein, and the man almost instantaneously revived. His recovery was completed by the administration of brandy. The bursting of a botcle in one of the aerated water manufactories of the city caused a painful accident to one of the employees. One of his eyes was completely destroyed, and he had to undergo an operation under chloroform. A nugget weighing lOJozs. was found at Upper Bingera goldfield by a little girl named Hackett; while two men obtained nearly one p»und weight of gold by hand crushing in Bendigo Gully Beef, in the same goldfield. The crime of fence-burning seems to exist to a large extent'in some parts of the country. On the estate of Messrs Glasson, Brothers, in the Carcoar district, a glaring case of this sort lately occurred. .