Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2002, 4 June 1875, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

MELBOURNE.

May 29. The business of the Parliamentary session has scarcely commenced, but a Mining on Private Property Bill was introduced, and a motion for the reduction of inland postage wag discussed and withdrawn. The Treasurer stated the present loss on inland postage was £100,0(30. The Government , intended submitting a resolution relative to the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government. ■•* ,

Probably an expedition will proceed from Melbourne shortly. An outbreak of typhoid fever occurred at Kew, and several deaths have taken place. Mr Thomas McKellar having resigned his seat in the Council, Mr Samuel Wilson of Ercildoun, is a candidate.

A quack doctor named Botterill has been fined for practising without a qualification.

Business in breadstuff's is unchanged. Hennessy's brandy is advancing. The Sydney steamer New England went ashore yesterday at Clarence Heads. ■

Tenders for the Californian service are invited up to the 10th of June. The defective railway iron imported is causing great loss to the colony. Proceedings will probably be taken against the contractors in England. A no confidence motion "in the Adelaide Government resulted in the defeat of the Government last night by a majority of four.

The latest accounts from the Palmer are very good. The whites and Chinese are doing well. In gomo cases the Chinese are making half-an-ounce to an ounce per day from ground left by the whites.

The steamer Killarney arrived from Hongkong with SCO Chinese, and others are announced.