TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 3219, 24 December 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

» fPEB Pbess Agency.] LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. [Per Otago, via -■■-•■ * MELBOtrara, December 17The division on the debate was taken at 2 o'clock this morning, when Mr Berry's amendment was'negatived by 43 to 28, one or two Government supporters,being absent. A farther amendment has been proposed in favour of a dissolution, bat this is not likely to meet a v better as'there decidedly a' majority of' the •' House against dissolution. These is very little prospect of the session coming to "a close at present. Commodore Hoskins paid an official visit to the Acting Governor this morning, and was saluted from the ships of war i; atid ttei batteries. H.M.S. Pearl leaves for Sydney" on Monday, and H.M.S7 Dido proceeds to England, beings under home orders. The non-arrival' df the steamer Oolintain Sydney has left' the agents without any boat to take the mails on to California, -and the Government has declined the offer of the MaqgrpzoiyFor the conveyance of the mails. T&e agOTts'have advised that in the event of the non-arrival of the wM' be no'Mbeat available *thi» 'ineatK* '-lEf.-H." |j &alLhae served a writ onJVIr for wander contained inlusi pttblic.ejilecfie3. Pills, has accepted service ,and r . cou4ste£ and, it,is said,.inteMdffl»i^)lcatliuleV'l : There is no improvement intheweattieaF; rain-etiH continues. •'•* J '' - ' ti.-.-j'iiiLi-i w ' Gommodom, Hoskins arrived December 13thpt*o dajw .early,., r ~ _ r r%r\ Owing to received staiing there was an advance in kerosene, to 35,(H)ftj;a|es at ; a 4?' vaneeSjprices. wheat in the Wilbur Eas been sold at £13 laa. r ~-. [ The; weather here-aridiri' Adeiade js vertf unfavourable for harvestiDg. ■ There is no later English, news. ; Sydney. ; A Sitil for se} has i passed its. second reading dri» thte•Conncil the Married Women's Propeisy_Bill and Secret Bill of Sale Bill have bden negotiated. A large number of cases of erysipelas are reported, and the contagion is caused by the attendance of medicai nfen persons similarly , 'diseased. Complaints are made of_ scarcity of labour in the country districfa:- ' a;i :: i: ; Information has been received _ that r ja, , young "Englishman gamed/Key^sjliailbi murdered by natives on Gilbert's Island. ] SHIPBINGi \ Melboubne. Arrived—lsth, |hfi !s<ssss; 16tb/Tower Hill, * »