AUSTRALIAN LATEST NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 221, 9 October 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN LATEST NEWS.

Melbourne, September 30. Tb chief «ecretary denies tlip correctness of the rumour geueiully circulated tlidt instructions have come out from Britain for tho annexutiou of Fiji. An indtgnntion meeting is to be held to-morrow, iv re the vote of the Assembly annent Mount and Morris case. Mr Grenthead's remedy for diptheria it being used §uccessfully. Lapidarist is the fnvorito for the Derby, and four to one offered and taken. Jloratio stands six to one for the cup.

Sydney* September 29. The Government do not intcad to insert a payment of members clause in the new Electoral Bill. A despatch has been received from Mr Vogel, confirming Mr T. Russell's arrangements. The members oi" the Lighthouse Conference have left for the northern coast in the Government steamer Thetis.

Adelaide, September 29. A large gold-carrying reef bos been found, thirty-five miles from the South Port. Large numbers of people are preceding thither, but food is very short at the Keefs. The London Telegraph Company promise, through the Government, to reduoe the tariff one-half, for subsidy of £30,000 a year. Wheat is scarce, and commands 6s and 7s per bushel. Large sales of wool have been inado for England and America at full rates. The Assembly, after discussing the Education Bill for nearly eight hours, has decided that the Bible shall be read half an hour before school every morning, unless a majority o( the parents in particular schools petition the Minister of Education against it. '