LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2227, 17 December 1875, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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Melbourne, December 8.

■ The budget debate, continues unfinished, but as most of the principal speakers have addressed themselves to the subject, but very little of interest remains. There is a section of the Opposition determined: to prevent the progress of business until a dissolution is obtained. —The case of Mr Mason, member for Gippslandi adjudged by the racing com-, mittee to.be a defaulter, has been brought before the. Assembly. The Government were asked to deal with the oase, but the Premier,declined to be a judge of the characters .of hem. members, and refused to take any notion. Mr Mason has commenced a libel action against the Age newspaper for a very strong article which appeared in that journal.—The notorious convict . Weeohurch, or Taylor (his real name), has suffered the extreme penalty of the la iv. He was executed on Monday last, and. died asserting his innocence of the charge of attempt to murder.—Scarlet fever still continues) and the number of deaths from this cause has increased.—The war steamers 'Pearl' and 'Dido' arehere awaiting the. arrival of Commodore: Hoskins by: the mail. He is expected at the end of the week.—. The Tas'mariian cable is broken for the firsttime since it. was laid down in 1869. —The barque.'Tien Tsin' foundered on the eait coast of_Tasmania. The crew were saved., She was bound from Newcastle.—Great;dissatisfaction is felt at the present means of communication with Europe.. .Since ithe,cable has been interrupted- messages are ..- transmitted by steamer anyhow, and without the slightest regard to-dates. . Commercial,—Business is very'dull, and- the markets are: inactive.' Wheats, 5s lOd to 6s'; pats are "very heavy, Tasm'anian '.3s sd. ' A Mauritius telegram shows"ii, fall-in sugar'of 15 to 25 per cent, There is little demand for Australian. .': - -,• ' Sidhet, December 7..• . 'The Chamber, of Commerce has appointed a deputation to urge-on the Government the necessity of a second cable to Europe.—A New Zealand digger named' Murphy got drunk, and was'robbed of a receipt for 500 scrip in the United Band of Hope mine, Eeefton,.and of 70 sovereigns.—Large seizures of jewellery have been made by the Customs for nonpayment of duty.—De Couroy Ireland yesterday served Captain, Chapman, of the 'Dido,' with a writ claiming £10,000 damages,'arising out,of, proceedings in Fiji.—The duties, on tobacco have been ..inoreased. That on manufactured is now 2s 6d, and on leaf Is 6d. Other alterations are contemplated. ; BBiSßAKE,Deoemberß. ' A petition has been presented to the Governor for presentation,to the Queen, complaining of Sir Maurice O'Connell's; conduct respecting the O'Oonneil' demonstration., -.''- :'■[ -