LATEST INTER-COLONIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 248, 18 May 1868, Page 3

LATEST INTER-COLONIAL NEWS.

Br Electric Telegraph. (FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD). MELBOURNE. Monday, May 4. Mr Drummond, Police Magistrate of Daylesford, on Friday night, at nine o'clock, permitted himself to be bitten by one of Shires' snakes; afterwards Shires applied his antidote to the wound ; Mr Drummond took ill, but slightly recovered, and then went home ; he, however, became worse, and died on Saturday night at nine o'clock. Shires has been arrested, and the inquest is proceeding. The Queen has vetoed the bill for reducing the salary of the Governor. Mr Sladen has gone to Toorak to submit a list for a new Administration, and final conditions to the Governor.

The Evening Star is printed with colonial ink on colonial-niade paper. Tuesday, May 5.

The first annual meeting of the Early Closing Association was held today. Mr Service occupied the chair, and the report was regarded as satisfactory. The Rev. Mr Higginson has announced that he will preach tomorrow against lotteries. When the Assembly met to-day it was adjourned over to to-morrow, a memo, from the Governor having been read to the effect that his Excellency expected to be able to acquaint Parliament to-naorrow that a Ministry had been formed.

The list of the new Ministry, : as far as it is yet known, includes the names of Sladen, Aspinall, Fellowes, Gillies, Langton, Macdonnell, Service, and Kerferd.

The " Gazette" announces the appointment of Mr Verdon as AgentGeneral for Victoria, in London, from the Ist December next. One hundred tierces of tobacco, eagle brand, were sold privately to-day. Kerosene has been quitted at Is to Is 9d.

Seven hundred chests teas, medium, realised Is 9d. per lb. •Another Art Union lottery, for the disposal of an estate near Ballarat, has bee*a advertised. The National Bank has declared a dividend of 10 per cent., with a bonus of one shilling per share. The retiring directors have been re-elected.