LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 847, 8 August 1871, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE &8. ALHAMBRA. . The s.B. Alha'mbta arrived, at the Bluff on Tuesday the lst.inst, and has Melbourne dates to July 27th. A Mr Hutcheson, saloon passenger, died suddenly dnririg the voyage. Passengers— For Dunedin : Mrs Hisjop, Messrs Marshall, Ketching, Colhnu, Cox, Hutcheson, Quirk", Mrs Jones and four childreu, Miss Wilson, Mrs arid Miss Akle and infant, Rev. Mr Williamsj Rev. Mr Donovan, Rev. Mrßoyer, 'and Mr and Mrs Dick. For Lyttelton; Miss Symoris. For Wellington-: Captain Holt, Mrs Holt, "rfant, and. servant, Mr Bacon, Mr Williams, Mr Harcbtirt, and Mr trandie.

Melbourne, July 27. Mr Walsh was returned for Balla«t unopposed. When the Assembly niet there were thirty-one on the Gbvernmeni; side, and thirty-six on the Opposition Jenches. An interiin vote of £30,000 jw salaries was unopposed. • The anancial .statement will be made on tn elßt August. . Ahero is considerable excitement in wmmercial circles on the fiscal bolicy Mth&new Government.

A deputation of s,oft-goodsmen interviewed the Goverriment in reference to drawbacks oh exports, and requested that the duties should be collected by measurement instead of ad'valorem. The Government declined if s fiscal policy ""till it came before'the H6use., .importefs... succeeded in getting the Commissioner of Customs to reckon a dollar at 3s 9d instead'of 4s. j The Ministerial banquet "at Sandhurst was a success. . The Lincolnshire arrived with the Marquis of Norinanby, Governor of Queensland, the Marchioness and suite. >

Woods, in the Assembly, proposos; to sell the Government railways and extend railway communication with the proceeds.

Arrived—Velocidade and William from Lyttelton ; Magnet, from Greymouth ; Great Britain, from London. Sailed—Went worth, for Auckland. Elour, £l6; wheat, Adelaide, from 6s 8d to 7s ; New Zealand wheat, 6s ; oats, Victorian, 3s 4d to 3s 7d. Tookey's, £18; Caledonian, £l2O. Sydney, July 26. The Woolgrowers Association have appointed Sir Daniel Cooper Macleav, Bushy Hamilton, and Alexander Lindon, a committee to watch over Colonial interests.

Ten thousand attended the Orange special services at the Exhibitionbuildings. Adelaioe, July 26. Wheat dropping; sales, 5s bd to 5s 7d. ADDITIONAL TELEGEAMS. Melbourne, July 26. Some excitement was caused by the picking up of a head-board supposed to belong to the ship Macduff, but it has since been shown tbat it was lost when going home. The Lincolnshire narrowly.escaped being wrecked inside the Heads. In a heavy gale she parted her anchor and dragged over six miles.

The Marquis of Normanby and party have been feted by the Mayor in the Town Hall.

A romantic marriage has taken place between Miss Ilsdin, a wellconnected heiress, with Barney Thomson, the betting man. Mr Walsh has been horsewhipped publicly by Mr Simpson for alleged impropriety of conduct to a female relative. A locomotive boiler has burst. The concussion was felt three miles away, and was believed to be an earthquake until explained. Rose, the levanting clerk of the National Bank, got four years' imprisonment.

The Corporation of Melbourne has recommended the Government to bring in a Contagious Disease Bill. A G-ipps' Land Kailway Company is forming. * The North-Western Canal scheme is

progressing. The Velocidade's and the William's cargoes of grain are not yet marketed. Michael Tracey has been stabbed fatally by a paramour, Julia Robins, who has been committed for trial.

Sydney, July 26. No English mails were brought by the City of Melbourne, as all letters and papers were addressed by the London Post-office, via New Zealand. The City Bank has declared a dividend equal to 5 per cent., and the B'ulli Coal Company 12| per cent, on preferential Bhares, and 10 on original shares.

Fiji papers state that a Supreme Court has been inaugurated. The Leivoni rebels have formally submitted to Th'akombau. Mr Burt, Premier of the Constitutional Assembly, promises to resign if a vote of want of confidence was passed. The Peri, Greyhound, and James Andrews have been wrecked at the Islands.

Adelaide, July 26. Harrison, late surgeon at the hospital, confessed in his evidence in the Insolvency Court that ho had committed bigamy. The Aldinga left for the North with a new telegraph construction party.