AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. [PRESS 'HERO.']

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5515, 27 April 1875, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRA MS. [PRESS 'HERO.']

The ' IJjisb.ino' ami ' Kairy Queen ' liver to.unus on tJic BiihImhc, June into collision, .mil the l.itlci .sank. The passengeis weio .saved. A sum of l'(»,600 lias been collected foi the Mlothonburg' fund, with a prospect of its being laiscd to £7,000. A committee has Vui appointed to prepare a scheme ior the dish lhiition of the money. Jl M S 'Sappho' has sailed from Adelaide for Sidney, but is expected to letuin to Adelaide attain in .June, when the trial of the seaman Wil.son, for minder, \\ .11 take place The ' Winifred,' fiom London, has am\ed at Busbanc, aiid bungs four hundrod and scventy-h\c passengers. The National Mutual Provident Assotiation shows a \eiy satisfactory rcpoit, -w ith l"(>,000 surplus beyond all liabilities. Louis i liengleman and All Kat have been committed at Melbourne by a coroner's jury for the wilful murder of Itcngleman. It is intended to form a permanent fund in Victona for the purpose of assisting ship wieeked seamen and their widows. Two brothers, named Miles, have been sentenced to three and a half yeais' nnpi i.sonnient for stealing gold trom the Queen Company, at Ballaiat. A policeman was committed for trial at Ifothain, for stealing a bottle of bi.md> fiom an hotel. Mu li.u-1 Byine Carroll, one of the membeis foi Aiar.it, who was apprehended on two eh.uges ot forg'mg promissoiy notes, and two clui yes of hens on wool, still remains in Aiai.it gaol, bail having been lcfnscd. Jlis books and pipeis weie taken possession of, and scaled up by the ollieial assignee, but information has been received to the cilect that they have since been stolen. The cases against him are thus described :— The lirst case was on a promissory-note at eight months, beanng date 1 7th April, 1874, ior C'500, purpoiting to be made by John Leahy, laimei, (hcenhills, near Aiarat, and cndoiscd by M. B. Carroll, and on a lien on the wool oi 2,000 wethers, purporting to bo given to (roldsbiough and Co as seeuiity for the advances. The second case was based on a pionussoiy note at six; months, for £580, dated 27th July, 1S71, in the name of Hugh Callaghan, farmer, of Diung Diung, and on a lien on the wool of 3,300 ewos and wethers. (Jan oil seems to have kept a double set of books, one correct, and the other false. When the documents weic sealed up by the Court officer, nobody was left m charge. 1 1 is stated that a bank official departed suddenly from Melbourne per steamship ' Durham, leaving defalcations. A house was burned down at Chilwell. The file is suposcd to ha\c been the act of an incendiaiy. In the case of James Thomas, for criminally assaulting a child in Melbourne, the jury were locked up all night, and, being unable to agree, weie dischaiged. In consequence of news from Mauritius, .sugars have advanced from 10s. to 15s. in .Melbourne Mauritius advices state that no vessels had left for Melbourne, and that nothing is loading One vessel left for Sydney, and one for Adelaide. The application made by the Bank of South Austialia for interest on their claim of CSO.OOO aftei being paid that amount in full, ill the estate of Messrs. Levi and Co., was lefused by the Adelaide Couit. The Tieasmer's approximate revenue for South Australia for last quarter is C271.000. The barque ' Empress' ran ashore near G'lciiclj. She is expected to be got o/F. The piospccta of the growing crops aie vei y bad. The excess of births over deaths of last year at Adelaide is 4,000. (>0,000 tons of breadstuff* were exported fiom Adelaide up to Apul 10.