AUSTRALIAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 16 May 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

The following additional Australian telegrams are from late Melbourne papers to hand by the Albion : — Adelaide, April 25. The City of Berlin reports speaking the ship Loch Ard, from London to Melbourne, in 43 S. lat., and 63 E. long. All the masts wer« gone, and the cargo had shifted. The City of Berlin bore down and sent a boat on board, but Captain Robinson declined assistance. He had got jury spars, with which he hoped to be able to prosecute his voyage. The Captain of the Loch Ard is the Bame captain as commanded the Loch Earn when she came into collision with the Ville dv Havre in the English Channel. Fisher, an insolvent, who was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, has been released on a technical point. Forty-five thousand tons of breadstuffs have been exported during the year. A new weekly paper is being startel, to represent the Methodist body generally. Lattnceston, April 23. The Golden Point Company, at"the NineMile Springs, from a crushing of 92 tons, obtained 7oz. Bdwt. retorted gold per ton. I Melbottbne, May 6. Parliament meets on the 19th. The body of a Chinaman, fearfully mutilated, and apparently dead about a week, has been found at the Woolshed. The man had evidently been brutally murdered. Mr. Wilson, a grain and produce dealer, has called a meeting of his creditors. His liabilities amount to £6000. The master painters have decided that the rate of wages be 9s. per day of eight hour 9. A large number of passengers left in the Wentworth to go by the Californian mail steamer. Oats are firmer at 5s to 5s 2d ; raisins, 7d ; rice, dressed, £10 2s 6d, undressed, £6 10s in j bond ; maize is firmer at 5s 6d ; sugar, £35 10s; i Queensland medium, £31 10s to £32. Adelaide wheat is dull at 5s lOd, flour, £13 10s to £14. Sydney, May 6. The steamer, City of Adelaide has been chartered for the Californian service, owing to the large number of passengers offering. The Mongol delivered her mails yesterday. She encountered a fearful after leaving Kandavu. Mr. Woods, the late Premier of Fiji, is reported to be a passenger by the Mongol, though his name is not on the list. A Victorian detective, who was, despatched to arrest O'Farrell, at Noumea, has returned without him. The proposal to liberate Gardiner the bushranger, iB causing great excitement, and a public meeting is to be' held to-night to protest against it. .The Challenger leaves in a fortnight to take soundings along the New Zealand cable route. Preliminaries along this coast are in the meantime being arranged. Beisbanb, May 6. At Georgetown the blacks killed a man near Craigil. Great anxiety prevails. Troopers have gone in search. Several reefs have been taken up lately, but labour is scarce.