AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 26 August 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbouene, August 18. The want of confidence motion in the Government, after being debated on for two nights, was negatived without a division. ordinary business, and it is likely that matters will proceed quietly until the Treasurer makes his Financial Statement, when a fresh onslaught will be made over tho Tariff question. The Nubia, with the Suez mail, iB expected at Adelaide to-day or to-morrow. A mining accident, by which two men were killed, occurred yesterday in the Prince of Wales claim, Ballarat. A meeting of the shareholders in tho Tookey mine was held at Ballarat yesterday, when it was resolved that the capital of the company should be increased from £77,500 to £117.500 by the issue of 20,000 new shares at £2 each. It was also resolved that the Tookey Company, in connection with the United Pumping Association, should borrow £50,000 from the New Zealand Government, and that the Tookey Company should give a mortgage of £15,000 as their proportion of the loan, but no security to be given which would have the effect of creating any liability to the shareholders. Business continues dull. Breadstuffs are a trifle firmer. Wheat, 5s 4d to 6s sd, for prime sorts ; oats, not much dealt in, 4a lid to ss, for feeding. A London telegram, reporting blight* in the hop crop, has caused sales to be made at a considerable advance. Large sales of bottled ale and stout are reported. Brandies remain dull. The latest Mauritius dates report the canes are yielding badly. The first cargo is not expected to leave before the middle of August, ahd as the market is cleared, nothing can come forward for six weeks. Sydney, August 18. The Government have addressed the Imperial authorities advising the annexation of New Guinea. Capt. Goulard, R.N., Admiralty Surveyor, while engaged in a boat with three men surveying at the Heads, the boat upset, and Gapt. Goulard and one man were drowned. The others reached the shore. A singular case of madness has occurred aboard the Minora, bound from Auckland to Newcastle. James M'Lean, a stow-away, hung himself, and wasjust cut down in time to care Ms life. He w»s found to be a raring maniac. At the Hawkosbury races, Mr.Tait'sGoldsborougi won the Grand Handicap ; Sir H. Robinson's colt Kingsborough, won the Hawkesbury Guineas and the Mares' Produce Stakes.