LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 83, 10 February 1876, Page 5

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, January, 28th

Dr Spencer, visiting surgeon, .to the Port Macquarie. Gaol, was thrown from. his horse yesterday, and his collar bone broken. There is no medical, man nearer than Kempsey. ' t . An assistant of the Oupanbeyan Post Office, named Springjfehrope, reports beiug stuck iup. A. man assulted and attempted to rob him on the Canberra Road} one niile from Queanbeynn, lately." The would-be-robber got the'worst of the fight. . ■■,':■ All liands are sick at Cape Bowling Green light-hpuse. .The Singapore called there and gave the above information. A- pilot schoorer has f been sent with assistance'. .... .

? MblboUrne, JanuarjrvS&th^ Mr 0, Longfordi a member of the Birmingham School Board, is .travelling to obtain an insight '- into the.educational system of this Colony. - : y - : . Major, J. Bell, -, of "Bell 'Park, .tftfar .Geelong, died this morning. "He was'one/ ;of the earliest ■settlors, having arriyed ( ia - 1.839, He held ox-.:

tensive landed property in Victoria; andßiverina worth nearly half a million. The ' Mongolia took * 54, : 000oz. of gold and 250,000 so verigns— rvalue amounting to nearly a half a million sterling.

The following team have been selected to play against Sydney •:— Allan, Cooper, Midwinter. Horan, Cosstick, Wdliams, ; Elliott, Goldsmith; Alexander, M'Evoy, and Wills. . The Land and Mortgage Bank dividend is at the rate of 9 per cent, perahnum. ' - The Melbourne. Gas Company charges the rate of 5s lOd per 1000 feet after ist prpximp. Inthe Vllliersand Heytesbury . election, Mr JonesA Minister for Railways, -has polled 1035; Sir John O'Shanassy, 753. The former is certain to be elected.

The VVangaratta Cup was won by Cleolite ; Mountaineer second; Ruby third. Fourteen started. Won easily.

The Assembly is discussing a motion to take Government business each day from 5 o'clock. Opposition offered. y Wheat has advanced ; sales took place at 5s 2d. The demand for candles continues. Maize, ss2d. Langland's Foundry Campany paid a dividend . of 8 per cent. Wheather very hot. Adelaide, January 28th. It is reported that Mr Boucaut takes the public Works, and that a member of Council will succeed him in the Crown Lands. , • The thermometer stood at 103 in the shade yesterday. . . A proposition to throw the Wesleyan Conference open to the public, or td Church members,, was negatived. ' - Theodore Voges, an agent, attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Wheat ia still wanted at 4s Bd. freights are eaiser — off erint? at 46s to 47s 6d.

Mr Duffield's Victorian . Mill at Gawler has been gutted by fire. It is insured in the Imperial for L 4530, the Cornwall office for LISOO, and the Queen for LIOOO ; the Imperial had areinsurance with the Australian Alliance, Commercial, and Victoria. Large wheat stacks in the stores and the open air were saved. The cause of the fire was apparently accidental.