Australian.
Melbourne, August 4.
It has been finally arranged that Service is to be Treasurer, and Kamsay to be Postmaster General.
Kingsbury is a strong farorite for the Havrkesbury Guineas ; Dagworth for the Handicap.
Hobaet Town.
The Colonial Treasurer estimates the revenue for 1874 at £265,000; for 1875. £311.000; expenditure on public works, £160,000.
The 'A.^.N. Company have declared a dividend of 12| per cent.
The steamer City of A delaide has been again chartered by the San Francisco Mail Service, and will leave Sydney for Auckland on the 14th August, and will convey?tde outward mails. The Tartar, now on her way from San Francisco, is to be sent back to China.
The Oyphrenes will be the next through steamer. I
The Australian Government astronomers think the comet is not Coggias'. Robert Watson, aged sixteen, suicided at Wodcnga in consequence of a threatened indictment for debt.
Gardener, the bushranger, was sent to Hongkong. t
One hundred tnd thirty men hare been thrown out of employment at the Moonta mine. Ihere is great dissatisfaction.
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 2
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173Australian. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 2
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