LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. (Via Hokitika.)

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2124, 18 August 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. (Via Hokitika.)

(PEE PEE 33 AQENOr.)

Melboubne, August-11, Tho Berry Ministry, with Lepoer Trenoh as Attorney-General outside the House; have been sworn in, and Parliament has adjourned to September 7th for the elections. The Ministerial side of the Assembly presented quito a deserted appearance yesterday, no lion, member caring to sit behind the Government bench.—Mr Ireland, as leader of the bar, called a meeting to consider the appointment of the Attorney-General as a .land officer, but therp is nothing in that.—ln tho meantime tho collootion of new duties has been stopped, and the money paid will b erefundedTherearo6Bacceptances for the Melbourne Cup.—Ah Cat was hanged on Monday,'at Castlemaine, for murder. He died fairly.—Captain Jno. Stowart is being tried at tho the. Police Court, at the instance of an insurance companies, for negligence in the loss of the 'Eliza Bamsay. —An extraordinary case of. imposture and personation has arisen. Charles William Bartlett, master of the ' Sea Bird,' trading to Hokitika, has for tho last twenty years personated another Captain Bartlett, and used his certificate. The matter was raised on the complaint of the Board of Trade, London. Bartlett has been dismissed from the ' Sea Bird,' and steps have been taken for the prosecution 'of the offender.—Dr Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, preached on Sunday, and yesterday visited his new diocese. A case of malicious prosecution occurred in the Supreme Court, and lasted four days.. It ended yesterday by plaintiff and one of the witnesses being committed for perjury.—Tho 'St. Osyth' sailed for London this morning. Madame Bishop is a passenger to the Capo.—At the annual horse show yesterday, the highest price realised at tho sale was 980 guineas, paid by G. Eoskruge, of Neiv Zealand, for Jlack Champion.—William Enderaon, a well-known jockey, was remanded on Friday for stealing a watch from Wm. Aitken, farmer, Ashburton, Christchurch. Ho will be forwarded to New Zealand.—" Ilima de Murska" was a brilliant success at tho Town Hall.

ShippingMelbourne—Arrived: 7th, Nightingale, from Kaipara. Newcastle —Arrived: 6th, Ella Gladstone, from Auckland; 7th, Androw Eeid, fiom Dunedin; Bth, Transport, from Duncdin, Island City, from Lyttelton. Sailed: 6th, Hopeful,for Lyttelton; 7th, Mary Blair, for Lyttelton; 9th, Planter, for Lyttelton. The s.s. ' Albion' arrived with,a broken shaft. She was worked with one engine. She arrived in good time for the mail steamer.

Business continues dull; breadstuffs unaltered. The Zephyr's cargo of New Zealand oati sold from 3s'Bd to 4s l£d, which shows a decline.

Sydney, August 11. The Pacific Mail Company' offers to change the route to the Bay of Islands instead of Fiji, at a reduced subsidy, but the Government deoliued.—A destructive fire occurred at Cook town; several stores and houses were burned. .The loss is estimated at £30,000. One Chinese store had goods valued at £10,000.-Parliament is prorogued to-day. Bally goes as representative to Philadelphia.' Wisdom takes the Attorney-Generalship. — H.M. s.s. •Mymans' sails for the South Sea on Monday.

Adelaide, August 11. It is rumoured that a want-of-confidenco motion against the Government will be tabled on the 'Budget.—A resolution was passed in favour of the annexation of New Guinea.

Hoiubt Town,' August 11. The railways show a deficiency of £400. The Government propose rates of a shilling in the pound on the value of property. No Customs charges are contemplated.