LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Melbourne; Sept- 25. The Victoria, with, the Ministry aboard, grounded in the Channel. An inquiry has been held.. Hundred's-have left here for Charters Towers. The latest accounts show the whole-of the reports from the- field' to have been fearfully exaggerated. Great disappointment and disastrous results are apprehended.
The numbers leaving for Port Darwin are limited-, as the rainy season soon sets in. The Netherlands India Company offer to run a steamer from Java to Port Darwin for £2COO per month- All the colonies-except Queensland will contribute towards the" cost. — Arrived:—September 18 : African Maid, from Auckland ; Edith Haviland, from Auckland; Sarah, and Mary, from- Greymouih. Sydney, Sept. 25. The Charters Towers press condemn the reports ai>out the field as being considerably exaggerated". The American war steamer Narragansett has arrived- She remains a month to be refitted, and will then proceed to Melbourne; The A.S.N. Company have resolved to tender - for the California service. - - ; The schooner EtbeHias proceeded on a cruiseH.M.s Basilisk has returned.. i
Adelaide, Soptembor 25. Reports from Port Darwin arc satisfactory. A trial crushing yieldted Gdivt. gold to* ton ounces # quartz. Nothing can bo done without machinery. Captain Hughes has oili-red £20,000, with £10,000 more if necessary., for the establishment of a University. The estimates discourage the idcaof fresh, taxation. A loan of £3,000,000 is to bo raised to consolidate all loans into- 4, per cent, bonds. The Government has received a telegram from the Agent-General, stating that the Imperial Government propose a mail contract to'carry mails to Uallo free, the colonies to convey them thence to Australia. The English Government, are to contribute £ ID,OOO annually for a monthly service. Wheat, 5s per bushel; dull.
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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 67, 3 October 1872, Page 2
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