LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1244, 27 August 1869, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne) news says' that Messrs. M'Culloch and O'Shannassy have been offered knighthood. Ejnnealey, the Fenian, has been ordered to find sureties to depart from the Colony of Victoria within a week.

A diamond weighing eight ounces has been found at Prahran.

Lord Gordon died at Sydney, on the 11th of August.

The Armidale, (N. S. W.,) diamond is supposed to be a sham.

The Sydney Admiralty Court demands £15,000 from the owners of the schooner Daphne, as a penalty for the captured (Polynesian) slaves. Mr. Moore, fruiterer, of Collins-street, Melbourne, has been killed by a cab collision. Fottb children belonging to a Mr. Bunce, of Geelong, Victoria, have died from diphtheria. The Great Gulf mine, Ballarat, has been flooded, One man and six horses were drowned.

Anna. FEATHERSTONE.whowasbornin the 12th year of the reign of George HI., has died near Burrowa, New South Wales. She was 95 years old, and lived to see a fifth generation of her descendants. She had been sixty years in that colony. Manslaughter.—-Clarke, the proprietor of the Varieties, Sydney, has been committed on the coroner's warrant for trial for the manslaughter of his wife, she having died from the effects of wounds inflicted by her husband. Bail has been allowed.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE PREMIER OP TASMANIA.— The funeral of the late Sir Richard Dry took place at Launceston, on August 7th, and was very numerously attended. His Excellency the Governor, "the Ministry, the members of Parliament, and about 500 of the principal colonists, formed the procession as far as the town boundary, whilst the streets along the route were lined by thousands of spectators. The shops were all closed, the flags half-mast, and everything betokened the deep sorrow felt at the loss 'of one so universally esteemed. From the city boundary about twenty vehicles followed the hearse to Hagley, and were joined on the road by great numbers of persons. The remains were deposited in a temporary vault, until arrangements are made for placing them in their final resting place—Hagloy, Church, which was erected at the expensa of, and. endowed by, the deceased aentleman.