LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MELBOUENE. July 3. Two trustees under the will of a person named Jacobs, have misappropriated £-±OOO. Jacobs' children have been sent to the Industrial School as neglected children. The Government are prosecuting the trustees criminally. Sir George Bowen is being feted at Geelong. The L"ape route is being discussed.
A University exhibition has been established for engineering. Gibson, Accountant of the National Bank, has been committed for trial for embezzlement.
A movement is on foot in Adelaide encouraged by Riverina; to tap the wool traffic by a railway from Adelaide to Mannem.
Puerperal fever continues to make severe ravages, and many deaths have occurred from it.
The iron moulders' strike continues.
A. branch of the Anglo-Press Association has been formed in Melbourne.
Threo grand marriages that were to have come off, in which each of three sisters were supposed "to be dowered with £30,000, have been indefinitely postponed.
The position of the Ministry is assured.
A collision is probable between the Judicature and the Government, in respect to the Stawell jumping cases. SYDNEY. July 3. The Basilisk seamen are showin» gold in quartz brought by them from New Gruiuea. Krauss, late steward of the Rifleman, has been hanged for the murder of Captain Longmuir. When brought to the scaffold he fainted. The mail advices are unsatisfactory to holders. The Newcastle miners have withdrawn their notice of intention to strike. _ It is rumoured that another expedition will be equipped to prospect New Guinea. ADELAIDE. July 3. The Adelaide Wesleyan mission has proceeded to Port Dalrymple. The City of Adelaide has arrived from London with eighty-two assisted immigrants. Wheat is quiet and prices unaltered. The Adelaide Grovernment will continue the branch mail service to King George's Sound, if Victoria asks too mueh for calling at Glenelg. The Loch Awe's wheat charter; has been cancelled. Trial surveys for a railway to the Murray, have been ordered. A prospectus has been issued for working a coalmine at Seymour, in Tasmania. POET DARWIN. Cartage to the mines is £IOO pelton. v HO BART TOWN. July 2. The Treasurer announces a surplus of £GtOJi'or the current year.
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1089, 15 July 1873, Page 2
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