LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3831, 4 June 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

. Melbourne, May 29. Ihe business of the Parliamentary session has scarcely commenced, but a Mining on Private Property Bill was introduced, and a motion for the reduction of inland postage was discussed and withdrawn. The Treasurer stated the present loss on inland nostaze was LIOOjOOO. 6

The Government intend submittingresolutions relative to the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government. It is probable an expepedition will proceed from Melbourne shortly. An outbreak of typhoid fever has ooountd at Kew, and several deaths have taken place. Mr Thomas M‘Keliar having resigned his seat in the Council, Mr Samuel Wilson, of Ercildowu, is a candidate. A quack doctor named Botherill has been fined LlO for practising without qualifications

Sydney, May 29. The steamer New England went ashore yesterday at the Clarence Heads. Tenders for the Californian Mail Service are invited up to the 10th of June. The defective railway iron imported is causing great loss to the Colony. Proceedings will probably be taken against the contractors in England.

_ „ Adelaide, May 30. Lurline won the Queen’s Hundred easily. The No Confidence motion resulted in the defeat of the Government last night by a majority of four.

Latest accounts from the Palmer are very good. The whites and Chinese doing well. In some cases the Chinese are making from half* an-ounce to one ounce per day from ground left by the whites. The steamer Killarney arrived from Hong Kong with 500 Chinese. Others are announced.