LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 645, 14 April 1870, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, March 26. The Press generally consider that the Ministry must resign; no sign has yet been made by them. Mr M'Culloch has accepted the Knighthood proffered him, and the patent will shortly arrive; he was offered a Companionship of the Bath, but declined it. Mr Cummings is elected for the North Western provinces. After hearing arguments, the full Court have reserved judgment in Draper's case. At a late hour it was stated that the Ministry are likely to force a direct vote of want of confidence, in order to obtain a dissolution. Maize closed firm at 4s 3d ; flour is quoted at £IL 10s. The Norfolk is off Cape Otway. Hobart Town, March 26. At the Clarence Council, the resignation of Mr Thomas, clerk and superintendent, at present on a visit to Sydney, was received and postponed for consideration. Mr White has been elected for Pembroke. QITEENSCLIFEE. Arrived.—lndian, ship, from Frederickstadt; Sea Nymph, barque, from Newcastle. At 4 p.m., City of Adelaide (s.), from Sydney. Adelaide, March 26. An important discovery of quicksilver has been made on Mount Barker road, in the ranges near Adelaide. Great excitement is anticipated at the city elections on Monday next. Corn market unchanged.

LATE AMERICAN NEWS

SHIPWRECK—LOSS OE THITYITVE LIVES.

Late San Francisco papers received by the Washington, at Auckland, contain the following items of intelligence :

New York, Jan. 25.—Foreign mail advices say the British ship King Lear, from Cardiff for Hong Kong, foundered off the British coast; 85 lives were lost.

There was a collision at Jersey City this evening, between the Erie Railroad strikers and the men employed in their places. The latier, while leaving work, were attacked by a crowd of of 1000 men and women, and only the prompt interference of the police prevented serious results. The police arrested two ringleaders, and with difficulty took them to the station-house, followed by a mob, who finally, however, dispersed. Fifteen new cases of small-pox wore reported at the office of the Sanitary Superintendent yesterday, principally from the densely populated portions of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards. No cases have been reported from the other parts of the city since Sunday. The suit of the Erie Eailroad against Vanderbilt, which was set for trial in January, is postponed. This suit is to recover 5,000,000 dollars, alleged to have been paid to Commodore Vanderbilt on the settlement of the litigation of two years ago. The case is finally set down for the first Monday in March.

Chicago, Jan. 26.—A letter from the Upper Mississippi reports that several whites, supposed to be English or Scotch, have been distributing arms ■among the Indians, and stirring up a hostile feeling towards the settlers.

New York, January 25.—Haytien advices state besides the outlawry of Salnave, a reward of 5,000 -dollars in gold is ofered for his head. It is also decreed that all other insurgents who shall fail to give up arms and submit to the revolutionary authorities within forty-eight hours after publication of the edict shall be equally outlawed.

Buffalo, January 25.—Extensive preparations ai'e being made for a great military and civic demonstration in this city on Saturday. St. Lotris, January 24. —Four small business houses were burned at St. Joseph, Missouri, yesterday. Wm. Bowles, brother-in-law of Congress, man Loan, was sleeping in one of the houses, and perished in the flames. While the firemen were endeavoring to recover the body, the wall fell, injuring two ot them mortally, and four others severely. Louisville, January 24.—The remains of George D. Prentice were removed from the Masonic Temple to Chiistchurch this morning, where the solemn impressive burial service of the Episcopal Church was performed, after which the remains were buried in Cave Hill cemetery with Masonic honors.