ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4356, 1 August 1871, Page 2

ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thes.s. ' Rangitoto,' Captain Mackie, left Melbourne on the 15th. July, and arrived oft Hokitika on the 20th, but owing to the boisterous weather she vras not tendered till the 23rd.

Melbourne. — July 15 : The new Ministry has been invited to a banquet at Sandhurst on the 20th instant. — A midnight procession, intended to express approval of the Minis terial policy, . was a miserable fiasco. — A movement for observing the centenary of Sir Walter Scott will probably take the form of a Waverley ball in the Town Hall.— The excitement consequent upon the Nunawading affair still continues, and further disclosures are being made by seceding disciples. Henderson, one of the disciples, has commenced an aotion against the Telegraph for an alleged libel in reference to his wife. — A woman liao died from tfa.© effects of chloroform, administered while undergoing an operation of the knee joint. Only forty drops were used. — Fohlman has been sworn in as Puisne Judge. — Harrison, the captain of the ' Hector ' schooner, has had his certificate suspended for nine menths for alleged neglect in losing his ship. — A man named Marshall attacked the manager of the branch, of the Commercial Bank at Collingwood with, a heavy dead weight. He js believed to bo insane. — A;bogie engine is experimentalising on the Hobson s Bay railway. — There is now telegraphic communication between Hong Kong and Galle. — A new Congregational church has been opened. Total cost, £6,000. — Maley, a solicitor at Geelong, has been arrested for forgery. — Bendigo mining is experiencing revival. Much excitement. — Mr. and Mrs. George Darrell (Mrs. Robert Heir), have sailed from Sydney for this port. They are under engagement to Mr. Coppin, to appear at the Theatre Royal. Sydney. — July 15 : The inhabitants *re arranging for the Scott centenary observance.—The wool sales passed briskly. Prices rather dearer. — Extensive discovery of shal* at Maneroo. — The Gulging diggings are developing very satisfactorily. — Scott, bank manager, acquitted of embezzlement. — Petet, postmaster at Murrurundie, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. — The ' Lindisfarn,' from Mauritius, reports that a new disease amongst the sugar canes has proved destructive to some estates. — Th« stock of flour islow.— July 14 : The Mercantile Marine Insurance Company's balancesheet shows a profit of £14,000.