LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1037, 14 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE. Jan. 2. Peebles, the spiritualist, is drawin" large houses. Mr Francis, Chief Secretary, and Mr Lnngton, Treasurer, will attend the conference meeting to ho held in Sydney on the 13th instant. The Chief Justice, in delivering

judgment la the late Carl case, said that the full terms of imprisonment would be awarded the prisoners Mount and Morris. They will be transported to Western Australia or remanded to England.

Sugars are firm. New Adelaide wheat from Gs. i- to 6s 3d. Good samples of flour are sold in large parcels at from £l4 15s). Messrs. Vogel arM Reynolds have arrived in Bangitoto en route for Sydney. An attempted swindle by a wellknown bookmaker at Croxton Park races is exciting public attention. . Loup Garou and Commodore are scratched for all their engagements. Jan 4. Blax' is selling at £3O to£3s; medium, £2B. New Zealand wheat, 5s 6d. Wire nails are rising fast; present price, £37. Bright Brothers have further telegrams implying that Captain Gray's death was the result of accident rather than suicide. Edward B- Young, the manager of the Oriental Bank in Castlemaiue, has been arrested for embezzling the bank's money. He has been remanded. The deficiency stated in the warrant was £lOl 10s. Bail was allowed. The sentence of Mount and Morris is deferred. Another charge is probable. Ships are loading with grain at all the Australian ports. ADELAIDE, Jan. 1. A police-trooper who has arrived from Yam Creek reports a new discovery of gold of "extraordinary richness in Miner's claim, and that the reef, said to be nine feet thick, bliows an average of 100 ounces to the ton.