LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1134, 19 December 1873, Page 4

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE. December 6. The December Suez mail left on the sth. The boat also took 10S,000oz of gold and £75,000 specie. . The last fourteen miles of the Ballarat and Ararat line have been tendered for and accepted at £43,000. Forty-seven New Zealand medals are ready for distribution. The Hamilton post office has been entered by burglars and robbed. There is great depression in mining stocks. Dr Godfrey Howitt is dead. A lengthy notice of his life appears in the Argus. Indignation meetings have been held against Brake, German consul, for a slanderous despatch to the German Government. A large steamer was sighted of Cape Otway, supposed to be the new Californian mail steamer Macgregor, from Java, It was too late to see the signal flags. The Government are using every effort to secure the capture of O'Farrall. The Agent-General has been telegraphed 'to and instructed to spare no expense to secure his arrest, and similar communications have been addressed to the proper authorities in the United States, in all the countries of Europe, and whereever the extradition treaty . is iu force. SYDNEY. December 3. One hundred and fifty-two candidates passed the University examination. The Wesleyan College was highest. Mr Andrew Loder, a wealthy squatter of the Northern district, with two of his employees,have been eonvictcdof rioting. Mr Loder was fined £IOO, and the others £SO and £3O respectively. The ship Bermontier reports seeing a large vessel bottom up 150 miles from the Heads, but she made no effort to ascertain the name. A Calcutta telegram says that new rice is not obtainable. * There are fifty-two entries for the Sydney Gold Cup. The Marquis of Normanby, governor of Queensland, arrived by IT.M-S. Dido, and is a guest at Government House. Fears are entertained for the safety of the barque Adelbeld, which left Melbourne for Newcastle, in ballast, on October 31. The barque Eotumah, reported wrecked at Fiji, was owned here, and insured for £2OOO. The cargo was uninsured. ADELAIDE. Mr Spiccr, a merchant, has bought Captain Ward's interest in the steamers Kangaroo, Lubra, and Royal Shepherd. Elizabeth Woolcock, convicted of poisoning her husband, is to be hanged on the 30th. It is reported that a rich reef and alluvial ground have been discovered on the south-east of Yam Creek. HOBART TOWN. A fish presumed to be a real salmon, and weighing nearly 31b, was caught near Bridgewater yesterday. LAUNCESTON. Dr "Welsh, a visitor to Tasmania, travelled from Hobart Town to Launceston, a distance of over 120 miles, on a bicycle, in fourteen hours. Mr Moore, the Minister of with Mr Lord, the railway manager, were proceeding up the Western line, when the train ran into some goods trucks near Perth. The accident was caused by the pointsman shunting on the wrong line. The engine was damaged, and two trucks smashed.