LATER PROM MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 5

LATER PROM MELBOURNE.

By the arrival of the St. Jean, we have Melbourne news to the 24th April. We maka the following extracts :—

The Weriiibee. —Yesterday saw the end of the Werribee encampment. During the forenoon the volunteers who had. remained tl:e night before, left for their homes, and that which had been the scene of so much bustle for a week before, became once more deserted and lonely. the tents were struck during the afternoon, and the destruction of the suttlers' tents had commenced before the lowering of the flag opposite the colonel's tent announced (at two p.m.) that head-quarters were broken up. The last night in camp had been spent very jolHly ; and if the bounds imposed by strict temperance were in [ a few instances exceeded, few will blame. That the men finally moved off the ground in high spirits need hardly be stated, for by this time all tha public are pretty familiar with the eccentric zeal with which they entered into the spirit of their work, and the hilarity with which its conclusion was likely to be greeted. Taking the encampment as a whole, it must be pronounced as inferior to that of 1861—a fact which is mainly owing to the weather experienced last week.— Argus, April 24. Opening of tiie Railway.—To-day the formal opening of another section of the Murray River line of railway will take • place—that between Wop.deiid and Zyneton. The first train for the last-named township will leave Spencerstreet station at a quarter to eleven a.m., and Kyneton .at three o'clock p.m. on.' the return journey. Tke Municipality of Kynetori intend to celebrate the occasion by a public dinner, to which the Ministry, a number of members of Parliament, and other guests, have been invited. It is expected that the dinner party will muster some 200- strong. The portion of the railway thus to be opened for traffic is ten miles long.— Argus, April 24. Charge of Rape Against a Medical Man.— The coroner for the district of Smythesdale (Dr. Crossen) has been held to bail—himself in £300, and two sureties in £150 each—by the magistrates at Smythesdale, on a charge of criminally assaulting a woman named Geddes, whose tent he had entered during the night, in the absence ■ of her husband, a miner, employed during the night. An attempt had been made by the defendant's friends to compromise the case, but the police apprehended the prosecutrix.-^irpM, April 24. . ■ The following lato telegrams appear in the Argus of April 24 :-=- ---■ ' SYDNEY. Wednesday. Mr. Lyttleton Bayly, formerly of Melbourne and Sydney, has been appointed Under-Secretary to the Government of Bombay. ' . The Eoyal assent has been given to the Chinese Bill. The Duke of Newcastle's despatch expresses sympathy with the feelings of the colonists against the influx of these people. Tho difficulties with the Newcastle miners are. not yet finally settled, but probably will be without a strike. ; Business i? dull, owing to the holidays, ■