Australian.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1956, 12 April 1875, Page 2

Australian.

y .: Melbourne i April 6. Parliament is* summoned for despatch of business on the 25th May. The Premier and Postmaster-General held forth at a banquet the other night, but vouchsafed no indication of the Ministerial policy. The idea is gaining ground that it is the intention to impose taxation either on property or income. '. All the Ministers and some 500 guests have gone to Ararat to day for the opening of the. railway. It is rumoured the Minister of M?nes, who is also Minister of Education,, intends relinquishing the former office to devote himself to the latter. Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, on a visit here, proceeds to Sydney to-day with his sister, en route to British Columbia via the Californian mail. The Macgregor left San Francisco on ! the 30th. Mr Husler, the Richmond wife-mur-derer, is ordered to be kept in confinement during the Governor's pleasure. Mr Hastings, v the A merican Good Templar, has been lecturing, but is not creating much sensation. , • The harvest yields will probably show nearly 17 bushels to the acre. The vintage is also likely to be gpod. The season has been very dry until the last day or two. • Sydney, April 6. The Sydney Cup was run for on Thursday, the 16th. (?) Six horses started. Imperial 1; Beprieve, 2 ; "Lurline, 3. It was won by a length pretty easily. Lurline al,so won the All-aged Stakes on Friday, beating a moderate field. At this meeting Sir Hercules Bobinsen won no less than seven races, and got place in five others. McGrath, boarding-housa keeper, of Grenville, and wife, have been committed for the murder of a miner. Mr Murphy, husband of the woman poisoned at Shoalhaven, has been committed for trial for the murder of his wife and Mrs Roland. Favourable accounts have been received from the Palmer River. Plenty of gold has been got, but from the sickly season a number of deaths are reported. The blacks are very troublesome. There is great opposition to Chinese immigration.; Two thousand Chinese are coming to Adelaide. ; The Gothenburg fund has reached over £6,000. Hobaet Town, April 6. Typhoid fever having broken out aboard H.M.S. Barracoutay she has proceeded to Sydney in consequence of want of hospital accommodation.