LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
The s.s. Tararua brought Melbourne news to the 3rd inst:—
Messrs Sam, House, and Co., merchants, had a meeting of their creditors, who accepted 10s in the pound. Their liabilities are £IO,OOO. Since the receipt of the war news, the Victorian Ministry held several Cabinet meetings, and has decided to re-organise the volunteers, placing them on militia footing, three hundred at a time to be drilled every fortnight in barracks. Workshops are also busy putting gun-carriages in order. A Royal commission on Federation is appointed. The Government contemplate sending a despatch boat to Galle to bring intelligence direct, should England be involved in the war.
The Germans throughout the different Colonies are subscribing a fund to relieve the families of the killed and wounded Prussians.
The Privy Council quashed the conviction against Hugo Levinger, for kidnapping South Sea Islanders, and has directed a writ venire de novo to issue. This virtually will release him, as witnesses now are not available.
The Navigation Board has censured Captain Gregory for losing the barque Sussex, and would have suspended his certificate had he got one. The Tom Thumb troupe proceed shortly to New Zealand. The fancy ball yielded a surplus of £6OO, which was divided amongst the charities.
The Insurance Companies have raised the rates of marine risks by two and a-half per cent., as war risk. The banks in the different Colonies have raised their marine risk two and a-half as war premium. The Sydney Inter-Colonial Exhibition was opened on Tuesday with great eclat. The weather was fine and, immense crowds gathered. There was a general holiday. Yictoria took fifteen prizes out of twenty offered for agricultural implements, and the first prizes for woollen cloths, hams and bacon. Sydney was excellent in horses. Twenty-five thousand people visited the exhibition next day. The City of Melbourne left on Thursday, with the Californian mails, and nearly sixty passengers.
The mail as to wool news is considered very disastrous to Sydney, most of Sydney wool being at the July sales when the reduction occurred.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 710, 13 September 1870, Page 3
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