MELBOURNE.

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 75, 29 March 1876, Page 2

MELBOURNE.

M'Kean, after undergoing a week's incarceration, was released on Thursday night, and managed to escape without payment of sustenance or other fees. While the matter was being discussed in the House some officious friends of M'Kean prevailed on the messenger in charge to release him by saying that the motion ior his release had been carried. M'Kean was asked by the Sergeant-at-Arms to return, but declined. The Age has accused the Chairman of Committees of being drunk and incapable in the House, and has repeated the charge. M'Kean, who owes the chairman a grudge, brings the matter •under the notice of; the ¦Government to-day. Currency has been given to a most disgraceful scandal, in wjiick tbe-'names'of'nearlv the highest personages in the colony are freely mentioned. It is said that decisive proceedings have been initiated, but' such-, upon' the very best authority, is not the case. There are all sorts of disreputable scandals about, and persons are so pointedly alluded to that they might be photographed. Walter Sherwin, the well-known tenor, has been accused of smuggling cigars. He has furnished an explanation to the Customs authorities in vindication. The salmon ova have arrived. Forty-three boxes unpacked at Erceldown showed about a third sound and healthy. A quantity taken to Ballarat died, owing to the high temperature of the watei, 64 degrees, when it ought not to have been above 50 degrees. Altogether, only about a third of the whole shipment remains sound. Scarlet fever is still very prevalent in all parts of the country. Many deaths continue to occur. The celebrated horse " Gang Forward" willbe shipped from London to Adelaide this month. _ The Suez mail will be again a week late. The China brings on the ntoil and' passengers instead of the Bungalore. Mdlle. De Murska has concluded her performances here; she will probably leave for New Zealand next week. There is every prospect of a Joint Rifle Team from Sydney and Melbourne visiting both Wimbledon and Philadelphia this year. The greatest part of the funds have been obtained in Victoria, and the men can be found willingto go. The iKyneton races were not largely attended. The Alpha filly won. the Kyneton Handicap : Ella the Dalhousie Handicap; and Barmaid the Lauriston Handicap. The Assembly got through a large amount of business last night, and passed several Bills, including the Mining on Private Property Bill ; , also a Bui to establish the postal card system, and two of the new Taxation Bills. Alfred Anderson, the husband of lima de

Mureka, disd this morning. He was only 26 years of ageVand has not enjoyed many months of wedded life. He was very ill when he married. Fearful accounts have been received of the drought in Queensland. In the Warren^o districts the thermometer has stood at 112 tor three weeks and all the rivers are fast drying up, and the cattle dying in all directions. In the Bourke district no heavy rain has fallen for two years. Several ships are now long overdue. The Loch Laggan is almost given up.