AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 44, 20 February 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, Feb. 13. It is likfly that Parliament will not be prorogued till the llth of March. ■ On. the morning of the 9th. a small box containing some explosive compound was sent to Mr Maxwell Reynolds, and when in the •*'•■ act of opening it inthe presence of an old partner, Mr English, it exploded. Mr liey- -.-;.* nolds was killed, and Mr English injured. The police are endeavoring to trace the mystery. An inquest has been opened, but is .adjourned. \ <.:.'.. A boiler explosion has occurred in East Melbourne. None were injured, but the •■•' . building was shattered to ruins. The Corporation have adopted an address v to the Duke of Edinburgh on the occasion of . his marriage. The Buckley will case is proceeding. The '• Attorney- General for the Crown says that ho . will prove the will to be a forgery, andthe claimant, Maher, the. man who forged it. * ? Maher came from Wagga Wagga. • ' '• Madame Goddard leaves India this month •'• - by the mail for the colonies, and afterwards visits California. Sir G. Duffy has declined a demonstration .7 * . in* Sydney. He goes home in April. Professor Esmarck's mode of preparing a limb, so as to prevent the lobs ot blood during an operation, bas been tried at thc hospital, andyproved very successful. '.",'• Blondin has asked permission to perform in J , .the jpu blic reserves, but it is unlikely that his ',-,; repuest will be granted. The Launceston riots are over, and the Goyernment decline to stay the collection of the railway rate.

Strop won the Launceston Cup, and Blue Peter the Handicap. A volunteer camp will be held at Sunbury, j at Easter. At a cricket match between the Eleven and 22 Bendigo loctils, the latter scored 90 and 165, and the Eleven in the first innings 154, leaving thein 102 to win The game will be resumed to-day. The weather was very hot. The ' Government Gazette ' contains a ' notice revoking thc proclamation prohibiting [ the introduction of live stock from New Zea- ! land. The dock is now completed, and the Nelson will be tuken in next week. Another legal mannger is massing from Sandhurst with defalcation p. shipping. Melbourne: — Arrived, Tasso, from the Thames; Circe from Hokitika. Newcastle: — Arrived, Cyrene, from lyttelton. Sailed, Rebecca Jane, for Lyttelton; Britain, fcr Auckland; Frowing Beauty, Cyrus and Annie Melhuish, for Wellington. Hobarton: — Arrived, Maid of Erin, from Hokianga. Tookey's: sellers, £12 per full share. Commercial:*— Wheat, 63 fcd to 6s gd; oats, feeding, 5s 7d; milling, 5s lOd. Sugars are movi'jg off freely. Candles are in moderate n quest ; geneva still attracts attention, sales 8t 14s 3d; oilnnn's stores are in good request; sa'es ot salid oils show p.n advance. Latest Mnritius news 6tatcs that two vessels are loadiDg for Dunedin; freights to New Zealand have increased to lOs. " Sydney, Feb. 15. The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill passed I through Committee of the Assembly. The Hume mystery is unsolved. Mr. Todd, of Adelaide, asserts that Hume had not time to do all he asserts. Proofs are adduced that he never met Mr. Warburton's party. Hume* remains ill at Brisbane. . A giil named Coleman, tending sheep near Tamwortb, was violated and choked. The perpetrator is yet undiscovered. The Torres Straits mail- steamer, Tom Norton, has arrived. Several wrecks are reported northward during the heavy weather. Advices from Palmer river nre satisfactory. Thc country was flooded when the wet season set in. About 1,6C0 diggers are on the ground, snd nearly as many more are en route. Provisions are frightfully dear, and no meat, fresh or preserved, is to be obtained. The blacks are very troublesome. At the Gilbert, the Gilbert, the telegraph-station is infested with them It was barricaded, but no fire-arms were obtainable.