Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2880, 9 May 1878, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

(Per s.s. Wakatiptj.)

(Per Press Agency.)

Brisbane, May 3

A meeting was held at Cooktown last night "to petition the Government to take off the taxes on the Chinese, and pass a bill prohibiting them from working on new goldfields for three years. Witherington, master, and Munro, one, of the crew of the schooner Ottawa, were each sentenced to six months' hard labor' for causing the wreck' of that vessel through drunkenness and negligence. Melbourne,. The cable conference is fixed for the - 9th instant. At a trial of Wood's brake in a descent of 1 in 52 the train was stopped in 37fsecs. in a distance of 2165 feet, the ! train running 66 miles per hour. The will of the-late Judge Fellows was proved at twenty-five thousand ; that of Mr Wilson of the Argus at twenty-three thousand in Victoria. A deputation of booksellers waited on the Postmaster • General with a view of obtaining a reduction of postage in magazines to neighbouring colonies, and adoption of a uniform rate on newspapers. The Minister replied favorably. Adelaide. The Queen has conferred the title of Honorable on Mr Colton, late premier, and Mr Curr, late Commissioner of Crown Lands. By cable from London, of date April 29, it is reported that the barque Cleopatra, bound for Melbourne, was stranded on March 22 near Pernambuco. Armed natives plundered the cargo. The crew were rescued and taken to Liverpool.