AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1137, 22 March 1870, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Melbourne, March 12. Trade is unsettled. Insolvency rumours are rife, and confidence is shaken. Degraves have re-established their solvency. ■;....;,;,, :: - ','. - 7 Flour. is ,very dull, at £11. . Wheat, 4s. Sd. Small lota of maize at 3s. 4d. Oats, 3s. King and Co., of Ballarat, have offered 10s. in the pound. 'W.'Georgeaon and Co., tea dealers, have filed their schedule." Levy; and Sons have assigned their estate. Buzzard, booksellers, have assigned their estate., . v .\'■. ''" ■ '' Sugars are firm ; but there is little doing and trade is generally depressed. The trool sales are brisk. In the Treasurer's statement made last Tuesday, large expenditures for the year are. proposed. Mr. M'Culloch . severely criticised the statement, arguing that the revenue was greatly over-estimated. The debate was adjourned. The Supply Bill to pay the civil servants has passed. ■ : •'■''-" r Mr. O'Shannessy has renewed his opposition to opening the Council with prayers. Mr. Mitchell has been elected Chairman of Committees of the Council. Mr. Williamson, teacher at the Scotch School, has been appointed schoolmaster to the ship Nelson. Mr. R. C. Gladstone, cousin to the Premier of , England, was killed at Terang by a fall from 1 his horse.' . • : , Sir Henry Barkley has been appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, The companionship of the Order of St. Michael has been conferred on Mr. John O'Shannessy ;- and the companionship of the Order of St. George was offered Mr. M'Cullocb, but refused. : Dr. Bird has been appointed lecturer on materia medica at the Melbourne University*; .".:., :.. " . . ' . - . Mrs. Sayera, of Wangaratta, while visiting Melbourne, committed suicide last night. She drank on ounce of belladonna. The Hebrews gave a banquet and testimonial to Mr. Ward Cohen to-day. , A chemist .named Thompson, assistant to Mr. Wragge, chemist, of Collins street, committed suicide by. means of prussic acid. The alleged cause. is, spiritualism. . .The suicidal tendency, is increasing, Several attempts at drowning have been made within the last few days. In the last two events of , the championship match HewitV won. .The decision on the last eyentcau3ed dissatisfaction. The dead, heat was not run again. . vThe pedestrians visit Sydney at Easter. Gowing, a soldier of the 14th Regiment, has been committed' for trial on the charge of rape. ' ' Power continues sticking-up with impunity. • t -t ; -;^i, i '-7'. i iV: r- ■•'■'"■ ■ /rhe ; raceliorae • Charon, is .dead, having received internal injuries 'while exercising. the death of S^sjmtEgai^^yliid wards , \yjis acquitted and discharged ;; but has been again arrested. Tne'Halford testimonial fund has reached Mo.

The Melbourne autumnal meeting commenced yesterday. The attendance was small. Tlie Hurdle race was won by Victor; the St. Leger by Lamplighter; the Handicap by Kestral ; the Ascot; by Vale Rose ; the Australian Cup by Norena ; and the £50 by Austral. Sailed—Prosperity, for Hokitika ; Moa, for Auckland. Sydney. Arrived at Newcastle— -Bengal, Camilla. The schooners Isle of Thanet and Flying Fi9h have been wrecked at Port Stephen. Wane, formerly of Gardiner's gang of bushrangers, has been liberated. . The Robertson testimonial fund is progressing. Public opinion is dead against the Divorce Bill, now under discussion. A portion of the estimates has been j passed. The wool sales are firm. Arrived-^-Novelty, barque. The Government have introduced a Bill fixing the Governor's salary at £6000. There have been floods in the Hunter district. Adelaide. The unemployed agitation continues. Government have offered work at 3s. a day. .Breads tuffs are steady at a slight advance. A man named Vere, charged with the Avoca murder, has been arrested at Bowman's Flat river.