The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1567.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 60, 13 March 1867, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1567.

By the Otago, which left Melbourne on the 4th aiid arrived this morning, we have Australian dates to the 4th instant. — The steamer South Australian was launched from the G-overnnient Slip on the 2nd. She has undergone a thorough overhaul in her hull and machinery, and has lu;d her bottom coated with Borfchwell's patent anti-fouling composition. She will be placed at once on the New Zealand trade ; she was to leave on the 9th. The steamship Barwon has made a trip from Melbourne to Sydney aud back since her repairs. — It is reported that gold which sold for £7000 was obtained from 100 tons of stone taken from a reef on Mackenzie's station, near Yea. The South Australian Advertiser of the 28th ult. describes the locality of the Dew gold-field as about 100 miles from Meuindie and Mount Murchisou. Water 3s scarce. The gullies, rises, and lay of the laud remind old diggers very strongly of the auriferous country in Victoria. There is abundance of quartz, aud ironstone and slate are plentiful, the bottom being pipeclay. — The captains of the Murray steamers are opposing the railway to Melbourne. The farmers and squatters are for it. — Scott's executiou at Sydney, for the murder of his wife, is fixed for the 18fch instant. — In the Maitland match, the Aboriginals in their first innings made 52, and Maitland 82. — Au attempt to form a Protection League in Sydney, has failed. — It is reported that the new Victorian tariff will work favorably for the Adelaide merchants, by stimulating their trade in river borne goods. — At the Gawler Agricultural ShoAV, 52 varieties of wine were sent in for competition. — The value of the land brought uuder Torrens' Act at Adelaide, last month, was £25,000. — At the Launceston Champion Meeting, the following were the winners: — Maiden plate, Mr. John Lord's Poetess ; two year old stakes, Mr. John Field's horse ; champion cup, Mr. C.B. Fisher's Fishhook; ladies' purse, Poetess ; town plate, Mr. John Tait's Warwick ; St. Leger stakes, Mr. C. B. Fisher's Fishhook ; Tasnianian handicap. Mr. J. Tait's Volunteer ; selling stakes, Mr. T. B. Clarke's Sir Walter; Queens plate, Mr. Tait's Volunteer. — During the past half year 12,151,000 gallons of filtered water have passed through the main pipes of the Bendigo waterworks. — The profit and loss account exhibits again on the half year of £363 14s. 7d. — At the annual matriculation of the students at the Melbourne University, on the 2nd March, 38 candidates presented themselves for examination, of whom 19 passed.— Lady Franklin has presented to the Acclimatisation society, of Tasmania, the title deeds of Franklin Island. — Gliddin a lunatic escaped from the asylum at Adelaide on the Ist, and went to ihe Supreme Court and protested against his confinement. He was given over to his keepers, the Chief Justice informing him, he could move tbe Court by writ of habeas corpus to decide whether he Avas properly detained. — Cobb and Co. are about to start a coach from Adelaide to the Barrier Ranges. — The Governor of South Australia is seriously ill with gout. — Connell the murderer of the constable at Sydney is to be imprisoned for life, the first three years in irons, — John Dixon late bill clerk at the Melbourne Oriental Bank has been committed for trial, for stealing bills tho property of the bank. — The Argus from which the above items are taken, says in reference to the tariff recently passed, the minority, the legitimate opposition, may hang their heads iv soitoav. They fought the fight with the gallantry of despair. But the hope was forlorn from the first. The voice of the couutry must be heard in another general election, when the land question shall no longer come between politicians who hold free trade opinions and the free traders in the constituencies, before Jthey can hope to eject the present tenants of the treasury benches. — A sum has been placed upon the Victorian estimates for the completion of the Burke and Wills monument. — Mr. Landsborough the explorer suggests that each, of the Australian colonies, should . grant a few hundreds annually for a series of years, in order, that the western half of. the colonies may be mapped out and explored. - . • .. '