LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 10.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 19 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 10.

Overland communication has been interrupted since Monday between Katherine and Yam Creek. Parliament moots on May 13. Governor Bowen encamps with the Volunteers from Saturday to Monday. A writ of ea re has been issued against Butters at the suit of the Polynesian Company, and he has been ordered to find security to the extent of £500. H.M.B. Blanche arrived yesterday to await the steamship Northumberland, with four officers and sixty sailors for war schooners. The Governor of Tasmania proceeds on a visit to the Governor of Sydney. Wallis, a Melbourne bootmaker, has been disqualified by Sydney Tattersall's. The population of Ifew South Wales has increased 12,000 during the last half-year, Adelaide, April 10. Brathley's Harvest Statistics show a total yield of 8,735,912 bushels : showing an increase of 4,778,843 bushels, and an average yield of 1& bushels. Estimated surplus for export, 180,000 tons. The mail news is unsatisfactory? at sh«r« it an advance upon nearly every article, and orders remain unexecuted. Timbes : A considerable advance has taken place on Baltic. Flooring deals and long much dearer. Wheat, 5s 7d to 5a 8d ; oats, 3a 9d to 4sv Kerosine, in moderate request, at lsBd, and It 2d Devoe's. Sugars are very firm. Melbourne. The full Court gave judgment in- the Mount and Morris case this morning, that they, as Judges, will advise the Judge who tried the case. It is rumoured that the judgment determines that penal servitude can be given. Melbourne is full of Volunteers, en route for the camp. The overland line is- still interrupted. Sydnoy. Last quarter's gold yield shows a decrease of 3,000 oz. The Funded Debt Bill passed a committeo of the Assembly. The Hero, s.s., loft Sydney, for Auckland, on the 9th.