Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1761, 25 August 1874, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

Meiboukne, August 18. " The want of confidence motion in the Government, after being debated two nights, was negatived without a division. The Government then proceeded with the ordinary business, and it is likely matters will proceed quietly until the Treasurer makes his financial statement, when a fresh onslaught will be made over the tariff question. , Two vacancies in the Council have been filled by the unopposed.re-election of the retiring members. Tho libel action, Walker V. George, the publisher of tho Australasian,, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff on two counts, damages a farthing ; and for defendant on one count. The Judge refused to certify for plaintiff '* costs., In the slander action, McKcen, solicitor, v. Neelay* where plaintiff was accused by the defendant, a clerk in the Crown Solicitors Office, with, putting Ins namo to a

list of witnesses' expenses after it had boon signed by the Judge, the verdict was returned foi\dcfendant. Humours are current that tho Calforniau Mail Service has collapsed. They are occasioned by H. H. Hall's sudden departuroby the Mikado. The Government telegraphed to London for information, and meanwhile the s. s. City of Melbourne^ is advertised to take the mail, j under the management of tho A. S. N. 1 Company, calling only at Honolulu. The b...5. Nubia, with the Suez Mail is expec-1 ted at Adelaide to day or to-morrow. A mining accident occurred in the Prince of Wales Claim, Bal.larat, yesterday afternoon, by which two men were killed. At an adjourned meeting of shareholders of the Tookey Quartz Mining Company, held in Ballarat yastcrday, it was resolved that tho capital of the Company be increased from £77,500.t0 £117,500, by the issue of 20,000 new shares at; £2 each. It was also resolved that ,the Tookey Quartz Company join in. borrowing £50,000 from the Now Zealand Government, and that the Tookey Comgive a mortgage of £15,000 as their share of the proposed loan, but that no security be given which would have the effect of causing any liability to the shareholders. A London telegram, reporting the blight in the hop crop, caused large sales to be made at a considerable advance. Large sales in bottled ale and itout are reported; brandies are dull. Lafest Mauritius dates report that the canes are yielding badly, and the first cargo is not': expected to leave before the middle of August, and as the market is cleared nothing can come forward* for six weeks. Sydney, August 18. The ship Rooparell, from Auckland, was towed into Newcastle damaged during a severe squall; no lives were lost. The captain sprained his ankle while clearing the wreck. The ship Chysonm, bound from New? castle to California, was 'towed in clismasted. ■ , . ; The Government have addressed the Imperial authorities advising the annextion of New Guinea. Captain Gowland, R.N., Admiralty Surveyor, was in a boat with three men, surveying at the Heads, when the boat upset. Gowland and one man were drowned, but tha others reached the shore. Parliament is further adjourned to the 15th. of September. A singular case of madness occurred oh board the Minora, bound from Auckland to Newcastle. James McLean, a stowaway, hung himself, but was just cut down in time to save hi« life. He was found to be raving mad. Hawkesbury Races.—Tait's Goldsborough won the Grand Handicap; Sir H. Robinson's colt, Kingsborough, won the Hawkesbury Guineas and Mares' Produce Stakes. ' ; Adelaide, August 18; The Intercolonial Free Trade Bill; is being opposed. ; — 72,900~t0ns of breadatuSa-hayo heew exported during this jear. ;