LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MELBOURNE, August 2. Mr Parkes asks Mr Francis the terms for carrying letters via Galle. In the debate on the Cape service, Mr Francis said the Government could not adopt this route until the New Zealand decision regarding the Suez route was received. Twelve hundred attended the Birthday ball. Tkre are complaints as to exclusiveness. Sir James M'Culloch returns in September.
Assaults on women and children continue. A mixed commission of ladies and medical men is proposed to devise a remedy. Munro, the actor, is dead. Nearly £3OOO has been subscribed for the sufferers by the Rip disaster. The Government will erect a monument to the memory of the drowned. The Assembly on Thursday next discusses the question of free messages to the Press. Mrs Shannon is recovering. The jury found a verdict of wilful murder of the infant. The Stawell miners assaulted the solicitor of the jumpers. Bloodshed over these cases is expected. Dense fogs have lately enveloped Melbourne. The English telegraph line is interrupted Flour —Country brands at auction are selling at £l2 10s to £l3 10s ; wheat, nominally, Gs. The stock of oats is getting low ; fine good feeding, ss, and Gs for good milling. Sugar dull A speculative demand lor brandies continues. Wool firm. SYDNEY. August 2. N"ine petitions are ready for presentation to the Judge of the Divorce Court. Mrs Williams, wife of a master mariner, bore triplets—two girls and a boy—this morning, all well. Father Tiim has been stuck up by bushrangers. Madame Goddard,s concerts are an unprecedented success. By a boiler explosion one man has been killed, and two injured. The remains of Mudderidge, who was murdered, have been found chopped and burnt. ADELAIDE August 2. The new Ministry will carry out a large scheme of immigration, and give protection to the Northern Territory. Highly encouraging mining news has been received from the north. Several other assays of Northern Territory quartz show very rich results. Wheat firm ; trade quiet. Two thousand eight hundred tons of breadstuff's were exported this week. The meat company shows a deficiency of £4OOO for the half-year. Brandies advanced. Breadstuffs dull; wheat, 4s 9d.
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 15 August 1873, Page 2
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