LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MELBOURNE. Election arrangements complete. Nominations for first batch commence on the 18th March. Polling for last: batch, 21st April. At an adjourned inquest on Reynolds, who was killed through an explosion, the jury after additional evidence, found Augustus Green guilty of wilful murder, lie was committed on the coroner's warrant. The verdict caused great surprise as the evidence against*the accused was the slightest possible.

SYDNEY. The Assembly has decided to postpone the vote for volunteers and garrison corps, ponding the examination of the commandant and officers at the bar of the House respecting tiie alleged disorganisation in the force. LA.UNCE3TON. On the sth instant the Government bailiffs commenced breaking into houses to levy for the railway rate, causing great excitement. In one ease Mr You], a householder, was knocked down by the police for resisting their entrance. Mr Youl has been arrested on warrant, charged with assaulting the constables, and remanded for a week. He was bailed out by Mr Mason, the police magistrate, in one surety of £2OO. A sale of seized goods has been held at the commissariat stores. A body of armed police, with fixed bayonets', was on the ground. Most of the goods were passed in.