THREE DAYS' LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4847, 10 March 1873, Page 3

THREE DAYS' LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

MKLnoi;itN T K, Maich 1. The fJovcrnor cui limited on hn.vrd the 'Mooltau.' Ho was accompanied by the membors of tho Ministry and otuet% The cmbaikation was marked hy tho usual ceremonials ; and a fjnhito was iirod. Crowds- of puoplo visited Randn<lj;o to witness tho arrival of tho steamoia and tho departure) of pfisqcnyera. A woman named Rcllticcs has been summoned to tho I'ohco (Jourt for ill-trcat>i)g a child at Ctrl ton. The ciicumstiuicca aic stated to bo hoinblo, lho victim n a servant. A young man named Madden, <i broker, was drowned this morning, whdo bathing, at Wilhnmstown. Mr. 'J'oscr, a malo of the stoamor 'Macedon,' was killed yC3terday while loading potatoes at Wnirnamboo). Jlo Wits buried in the evoning of tho faaino day.

March 3. Tho Chief Justice was Bworn in ActingGovernor to-day. Tho ' Mooltan' sailed tins mot mm;. Dr. Carr again escaped from tho Lunatic Asylum. Ho was arrested near •Sandrulge, and avowed lna intention was to have a slap at tho (governor. The ntcamors 'Atiato' and 'Somersetaliiro' arrived on Saturday. The former was 'juarantccd, but lolcased to-day.

SYDITKY, Marcli 3. Privato telegram, cimli r m<;il by the Queensland Government despatch, reports an Knghsh company signed a contiact to open tho Torres Straits mail route. Ths Intercolonial Cuckot Match adjourned in consequence of rain. Tlio garno now stands— Victoria, lirtt innuiR«, 1 1 it runs ; New y outh Wales, 1 1 runs ; Yietona, second inniugs, 2 wickota for 32 runs. Captain Wiltheringtori, and Ilobcrt Me Don gal, tho charterer and crow of the schooner 'Kate dr&nt,' wero tuod at tho Centra! Cuminrd Court to-d.iy for kidnapJjng natnes at the Imjis. They wore ac fjiutted. The Government express their willingness to join Mow Zealand m a good lino of mail steamers to San Franusco, but they absolutely refuse to join in any arrangement to Ground that tho b iati arc unsuitable), and tho service has been hitherto a failure. A shepherd named Hood went out to look for his horsa, but got lost in tho bush. Ihs remains were found three days afterwards. Frontiers reports havo been received of the finding of a largo number of diamonds. An attempt was niarlo to stub the Kov, Mr. Carroll, nt Bombala. Tho clergyman was at tho altar, having just concluded a marriage ceremony. A tobaccormr m William-stroofc, named Catherine Connor, attempted to commit suicide on the 20th, by taking strychnine. A married woman, named Mary Ann Hams, committed buickIo by taking strychnine at Hill End on tho 24th. Numerous rcpoits of escapes from and actual diownnij;-. are recoived from all tjuarters, tho flooded gtato of tho rivora and creeks lnalutig tiavelling dangerous. Tho barrj hp \V. C. ' Wcntbworth 1 \v.i<j on tho berth Joadmg for this port on tho ,'Jrd instant. Five boys mado an attempt to eacapo from Pcutridgc gaol, Mclbnurnp. Samuel Wri(>bt, who was couvicted at Sandhurst of .'ittomptcd murder, is to be executed at Newcastle on Match J 1. Out dates from Sydney aio to March •'<. From tbo If mi hi no take tho following with rcforencj to the markets :— The import markets have boon in a state of general dullness throughout the ■uetk, with no gieat prospects of any improvement. Thoro is not much lnqmiy eithor for town or ciiunti y trade. New Zealand Hank shares havo boon al C17 9-). Telegiams from Mol bourne dated March 1, report of the maikcts as follow : — Keromno, li !Ui; Henno'isy'd case brandy, 20s; mai/e, 3j. BrcadBtudd unchanged.

"Notieo is '/lvcn that tho final examination of Jlcmy Bowm.in, pliniiJrr, a hanknipt, will take place on the 'JOtli Much instant, aii'l of -John Doyle on the 27th. A concert, under iho p.ttrona^o of his J']\cclloncy tho Governor ami Lidy How on, in anl of the Aitill'sry, Kiflo lingado, ami City H.uid I uiula, will bo hold tit the* Music Hall on Knday next, at 8 p.m. Notice is given that; tho annual licensing mooting for tho B,iy of Islands district will tako place on tho 15th proximo. Sfcato of her Majesty's Gaol, Auckland, for week ending March 8, 1873:-— On lcniand, 1 male; awaitmy trial, lOmalca.l female; pen.vl servitude, .19 males; hard labour, 03 irnk.s, 2*2 females ; imprisonment, 2 males ; tkf.uill, uf bail, 4 males, 3 females ; debtors, 1 male. Ueccived during tho week, 2 males, J feni ilcs ; (iHehargcd, 5 inalos, 4, fomalei. Total in gaol, 120 males, 2G femaks. Tho annual gonoral meeting of tlio Acclimitmtion Society will bo hold in the Museum Duilchng?, at 2 p.m. on \Vo<lm-s.l.iy next. There wcro seven drunkaids conn nod in tho lock up last night. They wijl bo brought before tho presiding Magistuite this morning. Ear-trumpets of a wonderfnl construction, by which it is said ordinary sounds cm ho heard at a distanco of a milo, aro to bo ckhibiled at the Vienna Exhibition. Dr. Schheman, who has for Homo titno been digging on tlio site of aacicnt Troy, thinks that on the 13th of July last lm struck tlio colossal Trojan wall described by Homer. It is built of out stoiio, held together by clay, throo and a half metres (10ft ) wide on tho west and four on tho cast bkIo. Tho value of tho moimf&cturcd products of Now JTampshiro trn years a«o waa .J7,»0(>,«)00 1ol. , now it iy 71,000,000dal. Twenty-two thousand fivo hundred and thirty-four rag-pickers prowl tho streets of PariB t»vico in twfiity-fonr hours. They fill, on an averagn,48,000 or 50,000 baskets tvday. Tho avcrago »aluo of each baskot it thirty cents. nO.UOOdol. aro daily found in the leavings of Tana. Ono rlay, when sho heard tho minister eay tlierc would bo a navo in tho church, Mrs. i\ obsorved that " she knew woll v/ho tho pwty wfti,"