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LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PALMER RIVER A DUFFER. BLUFF. March G. The Omeo lias arrived here. She brings Australian news to the 28th ultimo. MELBOURNE. February 23. The New Guinea colonisation movement is progressing. The promoters intend asking the natives for ten thousand acres. The barque Eon Diego, from Liverpool, got ashore at Mud Island. Orders ior machinery in Sydney ore being sent elsewhere owing to a strike in the iron trade.

Hume has reiterated his story about Leichardt, and says he was robbed of relics. lie is not believed. The Palmer river rush is over. Many are dying of starvation and exhaustion on their way back. Provisions are scarce and at famine prices. The English cricketers won a match against fifteen Victorians by seven wickets. Grace then baited with eleven in the field and scored 120. The Eleven since played with Launccston and made 247 in one innings. Tasmanians made 90. Ten players scored nil.

The Blocks attacked Burrows' Creek telegraph station. The telegraph master -was killed, and the operator and a black boy wounded. An expedition has been despatched to explore the country passed over by Warburton.

COMMEBCIAT,. Melbourne, wheat scarce, Us sd; flour, <£l4 10s to £l4 15s; oats, 4s lOd, new quotations up to us Gd for milling. Sugars in good request. Freight to Dunedin, 50s. Speculative demands in candles ; good enquiry. The Wemyss Castle, fourteen days from Loudon to New Zealand, was spoken December 30th, lat. 30, long. 15.

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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1157, 10 March 1874, Page 4

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LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1157, 10 March 1874, Page 4

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1157, 10 March 1874, Page 4

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