LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1100, 22 August 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE. August 9. The grand Roman Catholic jubilee will take place on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Goold's episcopate. He will be presented with a gold watch and a carriage and pair of horses. The Assembly have rejected the proposal for a free English message for the Press. Mrs Daly, widow of a Police Magistrate has been arrested for concealment of birth, and has been remanded to Geeloug. Another wool company is starting at Gulgong. The Bishop of Melbourne will permit marriage with a deceased wife's sister. The second reading of the Permissive Bill is before the House. The total subscriptions in connection with the Rip disaster is £3,800. A large body of Police have been sent to Stawell to preserve order between the jumpers and. jumped. Several assaults have taken place. Wallace, the negro who abused Mrs Cook, is to be hanged on the 11th. Constable Power has gained damages agaiust the Government for wrongful dismissal. A bill is before the Parliament for the amalgamation of the Savings and Post Office Savings Banks.

Sir George Bowen's economy is severely criticised by the press. The English cricketing team will arrive in December.

Mr Erancis has telegraphed to Mr that he must settle the terms of the Suez mail before negotiating for a Californian subsidy. SYDNEY. August 0. Several murders are reported in the country districts, Parliament opens to-night. Great fiscal changes are proposed. The yield of has decreased by fifteen thousand ounces. The whaler Robert Towns has been lost. Rich tin ore has been discovered at Cooma. Three men have been committed for trial for flogging an aboriginal. The well known race-horse Lecturer has been sold for six hundred guineas FIJI. Cakabau has returned to Levulca without subduing the mountaineers. Another effort is being made to start a bank by the Government. They will give a twenty years' monopoly. NEW CALEDONIA. Seventeen hundred more Communists have arrived. ADELAIDE. August 9. An anti-immigration society has sprung up, and meetings are being held in the country districts. Wheat, 5s 9d. Mr Downer, Commissioner of Insolvency, has been appointed a Judge for the Northern territory at a salary of £2OOO per annum. Mr Reynolds has been offered the Residentship, but his decision is not known. The crushing from the Princess Louise claim,in the Northern territory, is the richest ever seen. HOB ART TOWN. The Colonial Secretary, the At-torney-General, and the Treasurer have been returned unopposed.