AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1591, 18 March 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

SYDNEY,

March 12,

The Mikado takes the largest number of passengers that have yet left via California. The brig Annie Ogle, from Sydney, Capt. J. McDonald, via Grafton, is supposed to have been wrecked near Smoky Cape. Portions of the hull and boats were washed ashore. She was insured here for £4,500. The schooner Sarah Nichol was lost near the same place. Both crews are supposed to have perished.

A Greek named Gatsos has been committed for trial, for murdering a Chinaman at Gulgong. Tracy, a railway guard, has been crushed to death at Newcastle. A miner named Hunter was killed there on Thursday, by a fall of coal.

Six candidates are contesting the seat of the late Speaker. The gold ex Gothenburg was recovered by a diver, j

Mr Holt, appointed manager of the ""to \. of New Zealand, Sydney, will receive _f_ l KnS per annum. *Jt,au| T he outgoing mail takes particulars of t(___\ traordinary floods, by which a large exfJH of country along our eastern seaboard wB been devastated, and numbers have 1 j4 temporarily driven from their homes %W> Government acted with becoming nr'omtf* tude in furnishing relief to the Buffi*!! many of whom have been left quite destitnf 8 ' The' saddest incident connected with tV visitation has been the untimely death « Mr Arnold, Speakerof the Legislative Assem bly who, on the Ist instant, was drownednT" his private residence. Mr Arnold was one f the most able of our public men, and his W is generally regretted. The cause of miser! in one district has been a blessing to other/ The pastoral interest, suffering from droneht has had cause to rejoice that the eoS rainfall averted further losses. It has a k benefited the city in a sanitary point of vie™The necessity of having this colony Jl' quately represented at the forthcoming exh\ bitioa at Philadelphia has been broughtbv» deputation before the Premier. His renlv intimated that a sum of £5000 for that ml pose would be asked from Parliament. \' have since learned that the Government of Queensland purpose to act in concert withm. and to bear a share of the expenses. ' A return intercolonial cricket match between eleven of Victoria and eleven 0 f Sydney commenced here on the sth, finished on the Bth, and resulted in a victory f 0 » New South Wales with seventy-seven rung to spare. While the match was in progress the Victorian St. Le^er was run at Melbonrne and was won by Mr Tait, one of our oldest turfites. ' 7

Railway extension progresses favourably under existing contracts, and trial survey are coins on in other directions. Strenuous efforts are being made to induce the Governmoot to call tendets for the construction of a coast line south, which would tap the i m . mense coal deposits existing in the Ulwarra district. This work will probably he car. ried out at no distant date. In mining matters the most interesting item has been the discovery of a rich deposit of quartz at Opbir, where gold was first diacovered in Australia. The stone is thickly impregnated with the precious metal. Mr W. Macleay, of this city, is fitting out, at bis own expense, an expedition to explore New Guinea for scientific purposes.