LATE AUSTRALIA TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1325, 21 April 1877, Page 15

LATE AUSTRALIA TELEGRAMS.

{Per Zealandia, at Auckland.) (from our auckland correspondent.) Melbourne. Nearly 400 volunteers took part in the review at Sunbury. The appeal to the Privy Council, in tho case of Syme v. Langton, was sent forward by the San Francisco mail. The stewards of the Kensington Parkraces disqualified Joseph Loverty and Legnard Gramwood < for manipulating lead after the horse Sailem had been weighed out for the selling race on Saturday. It is probable that all the racing clubs will follow the example. Adelaide. A farmer named Johnson stabbed his wife while he was in a fit of drunkenness, and the woman is in a dangerous state. A Twenty-two has been selected to play a return match against the All-England Elevenhere. The Queensland, E. and A. M. Co. 's steamship Theles is to leave Cooktown for Fitzroy Islands. Captain Coles says that the ship wa3 in a sinking condition, smd, notwithstanding that the pumps were kept going by steam, water was making at the rate of lOin. per hour. There were neither provisions nor water aboard. The rock upon which she struck i 3 not marked upon the chart, but ia situated two miles S. by E. of Cambridge Point. Finding the water up to the ash-pit 3 in the engiue-room, the captain beached his steamer on Albany Island, and made the repairs as soon as possible. Latjnceston. Mr James Finchan, lately employed oa the

main line of railway, has been appointed Government Engineer at a salary of £750. It is rumoured that the Ministers will be met by a want of confidence motion immediately after the opening of Parliament. Melbourne, April 7th. , Sharp won the 100 yds. race against Selby, the cricketer, easily. At a dinner to Mr Eraser, M.P., the Minister of Lands warmly defended the late Chairman' of- Committees (Mr Davies) against the charges of corruption preferred against him by Mr Berry. The Queensland Customs revenue for the quartei was L 75,000, or LIO.OOO of an increase. Thirty-six of the cases of fever admitted into the hospital during the month were fatal. The National Association have resolved tc spend L2COO on exhibition buildings. ;A company with, a capital of LSOOO has been formed to endeavour to float the steamer Singapore. The population of South Australia has increased 15,000 souls during the past year. It is now 225,677. The revenue during the last quarter was L 369,893. (Per Easby, at Wellington.) ; < Newcastle. .- iThe Maitland steamer ran into the lighter Champion, cutting her in two. - A man named Campbell was drowned. . , "'. ■ ■ '. ' Brisbane. •The Health. Officer boarded the steamer Kate, on which Governor Kennedy has been quarantined. ' The ladies objected to examination, and the Governo/ supported their objection. The Medical Board assembled, and resolved to release the vessel/ The Governor then landed. The Mayor presented an address,' and a large procession was formed,' consisting of t&e Ministry, Mayor and Aldermen, societies, 440 volunteers, citizens, and several bands of music. Large crowds of spectators lined the thoroughfares, and it was .the grandest reception ever known inQueensland. The Governor was sworn in at 4 o'clock. - - . - r . Parliament will probably meet • on May Sbh. ' J : Melbourne, April 7th.. The general discipline of ths troops at Sunbury is considered excellent.* ' A general order congratulates them. The new patent earth excavator .was triedwith satisfactory results. - i News has been received of the loss of the Bessie, at Beagle Bay, West Australia. Six lives were lost, including the master and his wife. ; , „ Fifty-two ., nominations have been made for the Derby, and fifty for the Oaks." , , . ' f Gavan Duffy denounces stone- walling tactics. At Richmond, the body .of Henry Pyle, age/1 15, r , who, died of typhoid* fever, re. -maindad, four ; davs unburied, the mother being unable,, through pqverty,,tb" bury him. The Mayor of. Richmond ordered the Govern, meut undertaker to bury^the body. J ■