LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1103, 2 September 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE. The ArgUs states that New Zealand will pay its own branch service, and contribute £SOOO per annum to the Suet service. Mr Francis offers to subsidise a New Zealand Californian' service to the extent of J15.000 a year, if Melbourne be made the terminus. - Oscar Wallace has been hanged for his crime upon a woman at Mount Beckwortln He died blaspheming on the Scaffold.

There are sixty-four entries for the Mel bourne Cup. Wardlll, accountant at the Victoria Sugar Company, has embezzled £7OOO, and has absconded. He Is believed to be hiding near ltichmond. Mr M'Kenzie the coal viewer' from New South Wales, reports agaiust the existence of payable coal in Victoria.

A dismasted s'lip entered the Heads on the li)th nit. She proved to be the Dellam Tower, Captain Dames, bound for Otago. She was towed up the Bay under jury masts. She lost all her masts and toils, even signal flags; She left London on the Ilth of May, and the steam tug left her off' Seaford next day. She encountered a fearful hurricane three thousand miles front Australia, lost her masts, and bad her' decks swept, boats, galley, and everything. None of the cargo has suffered in the slightest degree. No casualties occurred anioug the passengers. New Zealand riflemen are to be admitted to the intercolonial rifle match.

Mrs Daly has been acquitted of the charge of concealing the paternity of her child. Oats are scarce from 5s to Gsj SIDNEY. The skeleton of a Chinaman hag been found tied by the arms to a sapling, near Grrenfell. He is supposed to have been five months dead. Mr Sands, late of Sands and M'Dougall, was buried on the lSth., Thi funeral was very largely attended. A coroner's jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner Jarvis, charged with causing the death of a carrier named Muggeridge on the Orange road, near Bathurst, and he has been committed for trial.

A girl named Susan Anderson, for attempted child murder, has been sentenced to three year's imprisonment.

It is intended to establish a foundling hospital and mothers home. A woman named Margeret Hagan was? burned to death on Saturday week. It is supposed that her clothes took fire while she was smoking. Archibald Chisholm, the insolvent merchant, has beeu acquitted on the charge of fraud. There is, however, a second chaage against him.

A horrible murder has been committed ten miles from Forbes. A son of Mr Howell, squatter, and a young lad who was with him were discovered murdered under a dray. They had evidently been killed with an axe. Mr" Howell's head had nearly been cut off, About twenty-sis hours after the information of the murder a black fellow was arrested 100 miles from the scene of the tragedy, riding the horse of young Howell. He offered great resistance and wounded the officer who arrested him. He was tracked all the way from the dray under which Howell and the boy were found.

A telegram has been received by Parkes from Samuels, dated London, 16th, to the effect that Californian mail negociations promised favorably. Braudies are very active, and large' sales of Marten's dark have been made at 7s to 7s 3d ; also for Hennessy'spale the trade are now asking 7s 6d. Hennessy's case has been bought up at 26s 9d to 27s 3d, and holders are now 1 asking 28s to 30s, Martell's case sold at 265.

ADELAIDE. There is great opposition to the immigration policy of the Cabinet, and the Ministerial position is considered doubtful. The Chief Secretary has been threatened by anonymous writers who object to free immigration. The steamer Gothenburgh, whilst en route to Port Darwin, got on a rock* She reports having met the Omeo, on board of which vessel a woman had died. Wheat, 6s ; flour, £l3 to £l4, HOBART TOWN. The Tasmaninn Steam Navigation Company have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, with a bonus of 4s a share y being equal to 12 per cent.