AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2196, 25 April 1874, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

New South Wales, April 15.— A Chinese pedlar has been found murdered about ten yards off the Guy Fawke's Road, Armidale. His head is nearly out off, and, evidently, he bad been robbed. The Government have prohibited the importation of sheep from Victoria on account of disease. A telegraphic correspondence has taken place between the Sydney Government and that of England, respecting a charge of an extra peuuy poslage per letter vitt Suez, to , pay for the oonveyanoe between Melbourne and Sydney. The Home Government adhere to added rate. Mr. George R. Dibbs has been elected as direotor of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, in the room of Mr. King, resigned. Numbers of Chinamen are starving in some parts of the np-country districts of New South Wales. A letter from London states that so great is the anxiety to render the new San Franoieoo service effioient, that tbe construction of the new steamers is being pushed on so rapidly, that the first will be ready for launching by May instead of Ootober next, as was intended. A white girl, stolen at an early age from her parents, has recently been recovered from tbe blacks on tbe north-western border of the ' Colony. The Sydney Morning Herald says — " By the 1 City of Melbourne,' Pacific mail stoamer, arriving in Sydney on Monday last, a ' Postal Convention' (as agreed npon by the Hon. S. Samnel and the Hawaiian Government, and executed in duplicate at Honolulu on the 10th of March), has come to hand. It is framed ia accordance with tho terms of a rough draft left by our Postmaster-General with the Minister of the luterior in February last ; and when signed on the part of the New South Wales Government, one copy is to be returned by the Hawaiian Consul-General to the Hawaiian Government. The convention consists of nine artioles." Victoria, April 15.— Lnoifer, the Bire of Don Juan, is dead. A suioidal epidemic in the shape of drowning in the Yarra prevails. Another woman (the third this week) has jumped into the river. Mr. Robert Hamilton, the well-known clerk of the racecourse, is dead. A man sleeping in the Model lodging-house bos almost severed his head from his body through the effeots of driuk. Wieley and Nelson, two of ' Satsama' muti* neers were brought before the Court. They confessed their guilt and said that tho men made tbe mate drunk and tied him down, and then threw all the riflos and firearms over* board. Five only of the men went into the boat. Catherine Hoskins attempted suicide by taking red ink. The chip • Esoort,' from New York, reports seeing a ship on fire six dayß after leaving port. In commenting on tbe probable cession of the Fijian Group to Great Britain, and the large trade which is now springing np between New South Wales and tbe Paoifio Islands, the Melbourne Age observes— " The simple establishment of the Californian steam servioe, with its calling plaoe at Kandavu, and its terminus at Syduey and New Zealand, is a oironmstanoe that oannot fail to act to our prejudioe. Had we been sufficiently alive to the advantages that must ultimately follow from the possession of tbe trade of tho Paoifio Islands, we should not have allowed it to be diverted from oor port on any pretext whatever, and certainly not for the sake of making Melbourne the nominal terminus of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats. We ! have got the boats in spite of Sydney, and we ! should like to kuow what we have gained by them compared with what we are losing in ' other respects." South Austhama, April 15. — 1,700 tons of breadstuff's were exported last week. Fifty thousand acres of land was seleoted in March, the gross value being £85,000. Queensland, April 15. — Heavy rain haa^ fallen daring the last eight days. The creeks are flooded, and the road will be unfit for traffic for some timo. Many of the diggers are extremoly hard up. A nugget weighing seven ounces has been obtained by a Chinaman at Charleston. The following telegram received in Sydney fom Queensland Government, was published there. From Police Magistrate, Cooktown .— " Please mak<3 public, with view, if possible, of stopping present rash. We have had three days' rain almost without intermission, and BDoh rain — two and a-half inches fell in one night. There are large numbers of people in Cooktown — nearly four thousand— who can neither get on or get baok. The weather prevents those who are determined to reaoh tbe Palmer from going forward, and want of money hinders many who would rather return sooth from leaving Cooktown. Many who went to the Palmer without sufficient supplies have been forced to return. The Government will, it is hoped, try evory means to stop the people from coming hore, and crowding into a plaoe where there is nothing for them to do, and whioh they oannot get out of. There is no donbt at all that the"re are more people here than tbe circumstances will justify | and those who oome withont ample means to stay will be sadly disappointod. Shippers sending a largo number of passengerfj without means, are themselves running a groat risk as well as the people who oome here. The steamer • Florence Irving' arrived at Townsville yesterday, from the Endeavour River, with four hundred returned diggers. A number of tho men rashed the vessel to get away, and tho mate was serionsly injured. The police were required to dear the ship. Abont three eoore stood on the defence and assaulted the police. An excited mob, numbering one thousand, watohed tho affray from the shore. They rushed aboard, unshipped the staging, and oat off the shore cotnmunioat ion. After a struggle, throe of rli,« rueleaders wore arrested, and order wjj>- ° . ' Four thousand tnou arc at LooWi" . , *;i.nug for an opportunity to return south. As an instanoe of tbo privations experienced, it is reported by the Cooktown Herald that fifteen thousand men wero euouinpod iv Cooktown for a week waiting for flour.