AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 279, 22 June 1860, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald, June .11.) ■ [by electric telegraph.] ; MELBOURNE. -.■■'.■■ Saturday, 7.p-m. The Chinsurah has arrived with twentyfour camels, and other animals and birds, j from Kurrachee. ; Another damaging debate in the Assembly about the railway department in reference to the expenses and mismanagement. It is reported that the secretary is dismissed. No trade doing. Flour decidedly easier. Small sale of Adelaide firsts has been made, at £22. Thursday [7], 7-30 p.m. Greet dissatisfaction isk expressed at the New Zealand news. ■ .-• Markets are flat. Flcfur and wheat still heavier. The Maidstone cleared to-day for London, with 4800 ounces of gold. The Legislative Council, after an explanation from Mr. Fellows, has gone into committee on the |and bill. , .... In the Ass«mbJy Mr. Nicholson read his Excellency the Governor's letter, asking; him to withdraw his resignation on the ground that, in his bejief^.a majority of the Council were prepared to support the Land Bill, with some modifications. Mr. Duffy made a spirited attack on the ministry, on the 'ground that they had deserted their principles. Mr. Puffy and the Corner are evidently in alliance. Mr. Nicholson , replied that the Government had never declared for the whole bill and no surrender, but that the cry came from the Corner. He was not prepared to give up any principle of the bill, but he was prepared for its being modified. He declared that he would not hold office a single hour dependent on the support of Mr. Duffy and his party. The debate is still proceeding. The Escorts have brought 32,000 ounces.; NEWCASTLE,, ' ';.'■' \ Thursday, 3*28 p.m. The barque Mousam, Captain Jack, which left this port for Melbourne, on 3.oth May, with 290 tons of coals, foundered about sixteen miles from Port Macquarie, on Sunday last. Captain Jack and ere* saved in the boat,' and picked up by the schooner Goldseeker, arrived here this day. The City of Newcastle (&.), for Sydney, returned to port at 2^30 p.m., in consequence of the stormy weather. It is now blowing a ftrong jgale from S.S.W., with heavy rain. ■. . , ADELAIDE. " ' - Thursday evening. The ship Fides, which sailed from London at-the end of December for this port, was totally lost on Kangaroo Island, aboujt fifteen miles east of Cape Borda. The captain and ninej men (were drowned. The mate and four men came up to the port in a whaleboat. Flour and wheat are both unaltered.