AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 422, 2 January 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, Dec. 23. The ship Appeal reports seeing a burning ship soon after leaving Calcutta riainc unknown. A boa*; found beached near Cape Morton, with two evident escapes from New Caledonia. Had only one oar, makeshift rudder^ spritsail, bagging jib, lib biscuits, and a pint of. water aboard, and no compass. They must have steered by the sun. The names given are Crone and Busnol. Another woman committed suicide in the Yarra. She left a note giving her watch and locket to whoever found her. The schooner Isabella, which has" arrived at Port Mackay, Queensland, from the Solomon Islands, brings a report that the second mate of the brig James Birne, and a boat's crew arrived there, and report that the vessel was taken by the natives and all hands nioeeacroil^ ttt Lord Uomc'tr Island. The moonligut concert at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, in aid of the Orphan Asyluw, waß a great success. „ Daily telegraph communication between Singapore and Adelaide has been established by means of a floating station. The Melbourne Argus writing upon SullivaWs -case, 'says : — "We trust the Government will free the soil of Victoria from the presence of this garrulous assassin without delay. It has been suggested that there may be a difficulty in inlujing any captaiu to take him, as passengers might object to sailing in the same vessel with a man whose hands have been dipped in the blood of numberless victims. However if the difficulty stated -is found to -be insurmountable, we think that the • G-overument ought to send him down in the Pharos,' rather tbankeep him here in gaol. His return to New Zealand in ; this manner would be a solemn protest against the practice of turning murderous scoundrels loose upon the world, and be a forceible hint to the people of New Zealand, and | other colonies, that they must not seek to get rid of inconvenient criminals by the simple process 'of transferring them to their'neighbours." *■ Bluff, Dec. 30. The Otago left Melbourne on the 23rd. ' * - Berlin, Dec. 29. •Count Arnim has been, condemned, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. ■ Bismarck tendered his resignation, but the Emperor refused to accept it. . • . i-> \ The Beichstag yesterday passed, by 191 to T4, a vote of confidence in Bismarck.' • '•