AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 434, 13 February 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ministers since their return from their marine trip have settled dbwn to 'official routine. Severe hot weather has given way to a pleasant change, alternated by a few hot days. Several fires have occurred, the most important being near Footscray, where a woman named Froingwas burned to death. Government received a telegram from London that arguments in the Mount and Morris case were concluded: Judgment was reserved. At Back Creek,' near Sandhurst, a woman recently died at the ripe .old age of 114 years. : '• . _ During a hurricane which 1 passed over Qneensland lately, a train in which were thirty passengers was blown off one of the lines and became a perfect wreck. Fortunately no serious injury was s'uaitaiaed by any of its occupants On the H'lon river, near Hobart Town, the passenger boat Excelsior was swamped during a squall arid three persons drowned. Business in sugars is very dull ; teas are in good demand. Breadstuffs—influenced, no do.ibt, by tbe prospect of an abundant harvest — are,lowe"r. O.its are quoted at 4s 8d to 5s (nominal). Tobaccos are being largely dealt in. Mr. Huyh George, general manager of the "Argus," is a. passenger by the Tararua.

A curiously- assorted pair were married in the Catholic Church at Ennis oh the 9th inst. The bridegroom was only 3 feet 4 inched in height, while the bride was just two feet and a half taller, and is described as " well-looking and bujtora" into the bargain, . ■ ' - "