LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 954, 27 March 1872, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, March 14. Messrs Vogel and Webb were entertained at a dinner at Scott's Hotel. The principal representatives of the shipping and commercial interests were present. The hon Mr O'Grady was chairman. There was a very pleasant interchange of cordial sentiment. Captain James Lawrence, of Lloyd's Rooms, is dead. Flour £l2 15s to £l3 per ton; wheat 5s 6d to 5s 7d ; oats, 3s 3d to 4s; barley (malting), ss; sugars, firm. Markets generally unaffected by the mail news. Houeyman, a mining speculator at Ballarat, has levanted, leaving heavy liabilities.. It is said that he has gone to New Zealand. Hancock, sentenced to death for rape upon his daughter at Ballarat, has had his sentence commuted to fourteen years' imprisonment, for the first three in irons. At the races for the Australian Cup, Saladin and Flying Dutchman ran two dead heats. In the final ruu off, Saladin won by half a heck. The principal, Robinson, and his two seconds, engaged in the late fatal fight at Sandhurst, in which Robert Taylor was killed, have been committed for trial for manslaughter. The dismasted ship Calcutta, from London, has been towed into harbor. Donahue, solicitor, pulled the nose of 0-eorge Paton Smith, barrister, in the precincts of the Court. The Judge imprisoned Donahue some hours for contempt. The Omnibus Company propose to lay street tramways in the City. The scheme will probably be opposed, i Another action has been entered against Dr Blair by Miss Clampeltfor indecent assault some years since. Feeny has been committed for trial at a coroner's inquest for the murder

of Murks in Eitzroy G-ardens. The evidence disclosed, by inference, the grossest immorality. The Victorian Government have decided on lighting the South channel in Port Phillip Harbor. Stdkey, March 14, The elections are over, leaving the Government weak.

Typhoid fever is spreading amongst the prisoners at Paramatta gaol. A substance, supposed to be plumbago, has been fouud in the Coriidale tin mine.

Sailed. —H.M.s Rosario, for New Zealand. Conn has been committed for trial for the murder of a woman near Windeyer. Aceroyd, sheriff's clerk, has been committed for the embezzlement of public moneys. Bain is much wanted. The Botany Beservoir contains only one month's supply. Queensland, March 13.

Two more survivors of the New Guinea expedition reached Cardwell. They were badty wounded on landing. The survivors of the wreck were attacked by the natives. The captain and two others are known to have been murdered. Forty-three are still aliasing.

A man, supposed to be steward on the Rosario, Las been found floating; * with bis skull smashed in.

The steamers Eimonee and Governor Blaekall have heen manned by volunteers, and from Sydney men from 11.M.5. Basilisk and the schooner Peri are out in search of the missing who left the wreck of the Maria, oil' the "New Guinea expedition on a raft.