AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 217, 28 March 1872, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The Alhambra arrived in Port Chalmers from Melbourne on Friday last. She brings dates to the 14th inst. We select the. following items of Australian news :

Melbourne, March 14th.

Messrs. Yogel and Webb have bad further interviews with the Government on the subject of the postal arrangements between Victoria and New Zealand. Modified proposals have been favourably entertained. The details will not be made public till thej have been submitted to Parliament, and the agreement has been signed between the contracting parties.

Messrs. Yogel and Webb have been entertained at a grand dinner at Scott's Hotel,

Captain James Lawrence, Lloyd's Rooms, is dead.

A mining speculator at Ballarat, named Honey man, has levanted, leaving heavy liabilities. He is said to have gone to New Zealand.

Hancock, who was sentenced to death for committing a rape on his own daughter at Ballarat, has had his sentence commuted to fourteen years' imprisonment, the first three in irons.

In the race for the Australian Cup, Saladin and Dutchman ran two dead heats. In the final run off, Saladin won by half a neck.

Robinson, who was one of the principals, together with the two seconds, in the late fight at Sandhurst, in which Robert Taylor was killed, have been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter.

The ship Calcutta, from London, has been towed into harbour, dismasted.

Mr. Donahoo, solicitor, pulled the nose of Mr. George Paton Smith, barrister,, within the precincts of the Court. The Judge imprisoned Mr. Donahoo for some hours for contempt of Court.

The Omnibus Company propose to lay street tramways in the city. The scheme will probably be opposed-. Another action has been brought against Dr. Blair for indecently •► assaulting Miss -Ola in pelt f some years since, , ..,'-' : ■? • rFeeney .has. b,e,e"n '•committed .'for trial at the' inquest fpajilie jnurd.er.of J&gfks.lri^he" TFltzrb/sfti>

dens. The evidence 'disclosed by-in-ference the grossest imnjprality... . --'„• ..••,-.■." Stdnet. Conn has been committed for trial for the murder of a woman near Nindeyer. Ackroyd, a Sheriff's clerk, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling public moneys. Eain is much wanted. The Botany Bay reservoir contains only one month's supply. The elections are over ; the Government is weak. The body of a ma,n, with liis skull smashed in — supposed to be the steward of the Eosario — has been found floating in the harbour.

Adelaide.

The wheat market is strengthening. Speculative purchases of wheat have been made at ss. 4d. to 6s.

Destruction is being caused by a plague of locusts.

The body of Mr. Hayes, schoolmaster, has been found in the river Torrens. He is suspected to have been murdered.

Brisbane.

The steamers Zenoni and Governor Blackall, manned by Volunteers from Sydney and men belonging to H.M.S. Basilisk, together with' the schooner. Peri, are.out in search of the missing men belonging to the New Gruinea expedition, who left the Maria on a raft.

Two more survivors of the New Guinea expedition have reached Cardwell, badly wounded. The survivors of the wreck had been attacked by natives, and the captain and tvvo others are known to have been murdered. 43 are still missing.