LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 948, 19 March 1872, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VICTORIA. Mr Ailthohy Trollope is on a visit td Gippsiand. The Mudgee mailcoach has been stuck up lately, and the passengers and mails have be'eii robbed. Judge Skinner has decided at Sani hurst that the doctor of a benefit society is only called Upon to attend a member gratuitously when the illness has resulted from natural causes. The accounts from the north-wesl settlements of Western Australia are very encouraging ■ the pearl fisheries have had the most prosperous season yet known—over 70 tons of shells have 1 been obtained during the past two months.

SOUTIt AUSTRALIA. Great excitement has been caused at Tambatooraj N.S.W., owing to four rich claims having been jumped bf sharp Victorians, on pretence of a failure to comply with the regulations on the part of tbe original holders. Mr Ayes, who was sent for by his Excellency the Governor on Saturday, undertook the formation of a new Ministry, and this afternoon the following list was submitted. Mr Ayes, Chief Secretary ; Air J. H. Barrow* Treasurer ; Mr T. Eeynolds, Commissioner of Crown Lauds; Mr Cavenagh) Commissioner of Public Works, 1 Mr Stevenson, Attorney-General. The Ministry has been sworn in. The funeral of the late Bishop Shiel was largely attended, notwithstanding the intense heat of the weather. A telegram has been received from the in f erior, announcing that forty] five miles of the northern section hail been poled and wired a fortnight back. QUEENSLAND. Large nuggets have been found ai the new rush known as Charles Towers One weighs 1230 a lidwts. The steamer Tinonee Went out ill search, and visited wreck of the Maris brig, but saw no signs of the raft with the 47 people on it, belonging to the Sydney Expedition to New Guinea) and she left for further search. The Norman river is flooded as higli as it ever was before, cutting off conv muuication with the Darwin party.