AUSTRALIAN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 549, 25 November 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Under the contract this service should be forked on to Fiji, and the New South Wales Government now refases to sanction calling at Auckland, intimating it would only send tbe mail as by an ordin ary ship if any deviation oconred. Mr Hall had go alternative bnt to send via Auckland and take the chance of loss. The Sydney postal authorities forwarded the English bat woald not make up any Auckland mail. The cable seems to be interrupted beyond Singapore. The following is the only cablegram received.

Singapore, Nov, 18. There has been * good deal of fighting at Greraka. The English troops captured some stookades and repulsed the Malays, taking sir cannon. They burnt the villages along the line of march. The Australian exhibits for the Philadelphia Exhibition will be conveyed free. Melbourne. In the breach of promise case Galvin v. Simpson, a verdict for plaintiff of £675 damages was given. The Registrar at Collingwood was convicted «f taking part » * mock marriage. Scarlet fever prevails. The middle section of the <**ppsland railway is let for £170,994. Mason, member of Parliament is charged by bodk-makers with net paying his race debts. The Victorian Racing Club is making inquiries into the matter. The Arranata, a new steamer for the New Zealand trade, and the Northumberland arrived from London. Fairleeru3 station, Riverina, and 70,000 sheep were sold to the New Zealand Land Company. Later Cape of Good Hope news states that the rebellion on the diamond fields has collapsed, Henry Tucker and other leaders were arrested. Ivang Dahl, a Russian, has sworn that ho was a spy wifh the rebels at Kimberley. Part of their plot was to carry off the Lieutenant Governor Southley and Secretary Currey and put them over Vaal. An Expedition has been sent to the fever haunted marsh lands of north-west-ern Africa to punish a horde of pirates for plundering a British vessel early in the year, Adelaide. A dreadful murder was committed at Morxerus station neat Wentworth. Richard Anderson, stationman quarrelled with the cook named Edward Brown, knocked him down and dragged him into the river. Both were drowned. Brisbane. The Caviella, barque, picked up tiro sailors, deserters from the ship Doctor Grant. They had been seventeen days at sea and reported that the Captain of the ship was dead and that the vessel was in a very bad state.