AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 209, 1 February 1872, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

From the " Daily Times.' 1

Melboubnb, December 22nd.

The hearing of the charge against Capt. Collard, of the Sussex, in the police court, has already occupied three clays, and is not yet concluded. The salvage of the cargo proceeds successfully

King, the explorer, was not drowned f but died of consumption. He was buried tin ostentatiously.

The importation of a quantity of the Hindu's wrecked cargo of teas elicited some newspaper correspondence. The tea was declared to be unfit for hum.au consumption, A man named Morrison waa detected stealing a rug from the shop of Mr. Moss, Bourke-street, Morrison waa struck fatally by Moss, who has beea committed for trial for manslaughter,

There have been more Ministerial banquetings at Creswick, Stawell, and Castleraaine.

Diphtheria is rife, and a BoyaJ Commission has been appointed to enquire into its cause and mode of treatment.

William Levy, a mining speculator, has gone insane. His affairs are in a. complicated condition, owing to heavy and reckless speculations.

It has been decided to survey more railway routes.

The officers of the German, man-of-war Nymphe have been feted at Ballarat and Bendigo.

The States Opera Troupe is coming to Melbourne.

A man named Lassin, a stockrider at the Murray, in a fit of, delirium tremens took strvchinine. His infant child drained the glass, and both are dead.

A man named Cass absconded from' Sydney with another man's wife and £300. He was apprehended on the arrival of the boat ac iVLelbourne.

There have been several cases of sun-, stroke.

News has bsen received of the death, at Calcutta, of Landells, who wasoue of the Burke and Wills expedition, having charge of the camels.

Sydney.

Messrs. Yogel and Webb leave for Melbourne next week, in connection with the establishment of .the Californian line.

The weather is hot. Six fatal cases of sunstroke occurred at Murrundie in one day.

£6G,000 'of the New Zealand loan were placed on the 18th at 102.

The Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution recommending the Government to subsidise Webb's line in the same way as it was proposed to subsidise Hall's. The Government are indisposed to promise. The wool sales are firmer. The New Guinea expedition has sailed.

Fresh discoveries of auriferous quartz have been made in the (xrenfell district.

Tost, one of those injured at fie burning of the Theatre, recovered hia reason and then expired.

Sir William Martin has promissd a deputation that he will bring the subject of subsidising Webb's line before his colleagues.

News received from California shows that the missing boat of the Coryptreus reacted Shangl ai.

Queensland. Two men have been killed by the blacks.

A Kanaka on the Herbert River was seized by4in alligator.. Mail communication with Normantown has been impeded by floods.

Adelaide.

The heat has boea excessive for 13 consecutive days. There have been 10 cases of sunstroke, two of which terminated fatally.

Mr. Buchan, a bank manager at Gawler, has died suddenly.

The Moravian mission in the Far North is suffering from drought. Steps are being taken for its relief.

Wheat is firm and difficult to obtain at ss.

The Meat Preserving Company gives a favourable account of its operations.

In the new Parliament an amendment on the Address, condemning the conduct of the Government, and recommending a dissolution, was carried. The Ministry will not accept this as a vote of want of confidence, and keep their, seats.

Latest news from Port 6arwin (December 2nd) states that the line is progressing favourably.

Flour, grain, and produce are unaltered, and the market is very quiet.

Holloway 's Ointment and Pills. — Fear Not. — Thousjh surrounded by circumstances disadvantageous to health' these remedies, properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diphtheria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, or unwary. The superiority of Hollow&y'a medicines over others for subduing disease has been so widely and fqlly proved that it is only necessary to the afflicted to give them a trial, an.d if the instructions folded round them be followed, no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. In hoarseness and ulcerated sore throats the Ointment should frequently be rubbed on tho neck and upper part of the chest,