LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2336, 28 August 1875, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

The ' Silver Cloud ' aud the war schooner 'lloynard' have' M rtl'rived' at Sydney from Lovuka. Tho latter reports tlmt H.M.S. ' Barracouta,' with Oovewioi 1 Oo^douou board, was visiting Bavu and Nandi, with a view to chooso some hotter site tbau Levuka for tho capital of Fiji. Mrs. Fairfax, senior, of Syduey, is dead. Twenty thousand ouuecs of gold have reached Sydney from CooUtowu.

Mr. John JDuuu (tho oldest actor ou tho Austr^liau btago), was smed with n fit iv ihu street on tiio night of August 17, as ho was ou his way to the Melbourne Opera-house, where ho was performing that oveniug. lie wus conveyed to tho Hospital, but died before he reached thoro. Ho was C 8 years of ago, and lea vox a .widow aud two sous and two daughters. At Sydney tho mau White has beeu convicted of tho attempt to bribe 11 member of tho Assembly, and eouteuced to three years' imprisonment. A point has been reserved for tiio full ' Court atf to the priviieKes'o't'iucmbers in tho Colony, and .the defendant has been roleascd on bail. Tho immigrant ship' 'Ophelia' has arrived at Brisbane (QueeuKlaud) with typhoid fever oh board. Fourteen deaths 'had occurred from various causes., ii-, 1 n-^ " Madamo Juunuschck, tho eminent tra''gedieuue, IS eipeoted to'jnako hw lln&t apliearunce At tho , Theatre ltoyal at Molbouruo, ou September 4 th.