Australian Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 45, 20 May 1875, Page 6

Australian Intelligence.

By the Omeo which arrived at the Bluff on the 15 th instant, we have Melbourne dates to the 9th instant. Parliament" mcc*; on the 25th. The City Council have accepted th& offer of the Mayor to plant ' Collins East with sliade trees. • The City of Ballarat loan 0fL50,000 was successfully floated. Experiments in the new specific cure for fluke abruptly terminated ; the dogs worrying the ' remaining sheep.. ; The specific is, however, reported favorably of. A- respectable elderly woman named Elizabeth Brossman committed sui-^ cide by cutting her throat at Sandhurst, ■The Catholic clergy are. still continuing their agitation against the Education Act, A collision on the North-Eastern, Railway did some damage, and two persons were injured. The locomotive department reports that breakdowns are less frequent or serious in Victoria than elsewhere, The National Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. with, a bonus of 2 per cent. ''...' Captain Audley Coote is in Sydney on the New Zealand cable- business. The National Labor Bureau is so far a comparative failure. It has been decided to reduce the fees of employers to a shilling. The Exhibition buildings are being rapidly completed. The Hon; S. D. Hastings continues to lecture in favor of Good Templarism^ and several demonstrations have- taken place. . A shocking suicide secured at ; Daylesford; Mary Anne Wilson, aged 24, swallowed' a bottle of laudanum. She had led a wretched life -with- some Chinese. ; An enthusiastic meeting was held at Sevastopol to support the Education Act.'' ••-.-• . -' •■■ - ' A writ has beenassuftd for Ararat Electorate in the place of Carrol. There are several candidates. : The city of Ballarat loan of L50,0P0 has been successfully floated.. Three seamen jumped -overboard from the barque iCarletoh at QueensclinV to desert. . They have not since, been heard of, and most probably are drowned as cries were ; heard by persons on the steamer Omeo; The Golconda, with the English mail on board, reached ' Melbo'unie on the 3rd instant- Mr Anthony Trpllope was among the passengers. : i ' The ; Rev. -Clark, , reached Sydney by the Hero. •>■'-■; . ■'•■:■. ■'.; The Local Board of Health-fdpliMel bourne :mtetid v to prosecute several factory and working-room; ; bwne^ 'for breaches of theSanitary^Regulaubns. ; Arrangements - been concluded l! for floating the <Blen6^thta?'a# Kings Island, as T she is now ciearr'o^4*ai?g6! ; i Thiß#inister of-Railwaj^yisited-St. A*naud j on • th© GtWms&tfriTfe'p&ci ithe proposedTailway- routesv - f i --At'tfibaii4uet he fpromised fto Tsubmity^-me'asnre n4xtr session for 1 fettep- railway jbxJ tehsibn.-' .'" /"••■ ■ ; " ; . -.■/■■y.''' i: . w 'h-' i _- Ji ;pA public meeting Held in* Melbourne on the - 6th instV -passed^ resolutions in - <$ Thefißbjrftl G&nimissM^bii^hi Vdltan-