THE QUEENSLAND RUSH.

Daily Southern Cross, 11 April 1868, Page 4

THE QUEENSLAND RUSH.

Thi latest intelligence to band from the Queensland diggings shows that tbe find of gold is not capable to support a large population. Indeed, the place to be frightfully over-rushed, and miseryeven •tarration— imminent, unless new ground be quickly opened up. Mr. Beavan, of Hokitika, has recently received from a friend in Sydney a letter recommending him to warn all who have not started that the Maryborough goldfield is a delusion and a snare, and that tbe local newspapers have mistaken pennyweights for ounces, and a little coarse gold for ncn finds of nuggets. Mr. Beavan's correspondent concludes his letter by saying that the West Coast of New Zealand holds out far greater inducements for ""S^?,. n ail y fchin gyetdiscoTered in Queensland. — Wellington Independent.

The Argus of the 20th says :—" Yesterday afternoon Mr. Fellows received a communication from his Ezoellenoy the Governor, declining— at leiut for the present— to accede to the terms propounded by the non. gentleman, viz., a dissolution in case any Government he might form was met by an adverse vote of the Assembly. His Excellency said that before assenting] to inch a proposition he thought he VM bound to try erery other means of procuring supplies, and, with this view, we understand that he last evening placed himself in communication with Captain MaoMahon." The same journal of the 24th nit. lays: — u In consequence of, the communication received by his Ezoellenoy the Governor from Captain MaoMahon on Saturday, in which under the arcumstances the last-named gentleman declined the task of formingan administration, his Excellency ye«Urd*y «mt for Mr. Riddell, the hon. member for Weßtßonriw. Mr. Bidddl subsequently saw several memben o£bothttouses, and anticipates being able y 'JJW [wldrf he «» obtain an insuS^LiT "IS. Mdm ?. memb «"' ot the Legislativ. Jg b f« ,5? le ~ ** « "tisfied on tnis point he mil not* we bslwve, move further in the matter. 2£s& m Sf"*°l^ mt t T.° Mr.- Kiddtll time to oonolude his negotiatioiis," '