LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Per Cyphrenes.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 456, 20 April 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Per Cyphrenes.

The Typhoid fever has broken out on board the war-steamer B'lirracouta, at .IJobart Town. Unofficial statistics estimate the Victoriun wheat yield at 5,871,000 bushels', giving «n average of 16 bushels. I'hrec men have been committed for trial for pollouting the River Yarra, making it dangerous to hoiltb. Mr >H. Audrews succeeds Professor Irving as head master at Wtsley College at the cad of the year. The body of a man na,med $enselma# was fqur^vl

nt* to uoou. uiuiuorcu, nou him wue auu m uuiuuuiau - are now in custody on suspicion. The " Bendigo Advertiser" states that it is informed that Mr C. E. Jones was crushed to death in a railway carriage in America. R lin is badly wanted, and sheep Are suffering from lack of it. Mr J. N". Blacktoore, Under Treasurer of South Australia, died at the age of 39. A painter naiuGd Beilhy has committed suicide by drowning himself in the River Torrena. Fielder, insolvent, was arrested at Adelaide on a charge of stealing horsehair, and £200 was found in his pockets. Mr William Woods, mason, ol Port Lincoln, has been burnt to death. A woman bled to death in Brisbane. When fetching beer she slipped in the street, and falling on the jug it cut her neck. The s.s. Leichardt, en route from Oooktown, brings nearly 10,000oz of gold. The blacks cruelly murdered Conn, a settler, 14 miles from Cardwell, and carried bis wite off to the ous'i. Latest intelligence from Cooktown stato3 that a large party started last week for the heads of the Johnson River, but the blacks are very bad. On the Norman by and Laura they speared many horses and attacked two men ; one, Henry Sharp, came .iown with a spear sticking in his sho aider, six day* after he had been wounded. The season is very sickly, and many deaths are reported. Jessop, the prospector, died in the hospital after three days' illness. It is reported that a gold discovery has been made at the head of the Fanning River, eighty miles from Townsville, and that two men obtained 21b weight 1 of gold in a short time. A man named Flanagan has been stuck up at One Tree Hill, Queanbeyan, by an armed bushranger, disguised. He was tied to a tree, and £100 were taken from him.