Australian.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2075, 28 August 1875, Page 3

Australian.

MELBOURNE;

August 21. Ministers have changed front a little since th.c Qhiet^ Secretary's speech ut Geelong, which was not well received by the country. Other speeches by Ministers, have been something mora definite of a" policy. The .lan.da are to be taxed according to valuation,* and not by area', audit is proposed to "invite, at a conference, other colonies to consider the tariff question and* the relations of the colonies with the Imperial Government In all this the finger of Higinbottom is plainly

'visible.' The' nominations^ kave passed and all Miuisters are elected. Very great anxiety is felt about th( mail steamer Ceylon, which left here ii July, and has, not yet reached Galle We learn that she repaired a defect it her machinery at the Sound, .and left on the 24th. She has a nnmbcr of passen gers and valuable freight. Judge Molesworth has issued an attachmentagainst Dr Bradford, who elopec with a ward of the Court to New Zealand, and is now settled at Wellington and no further sums are to bo paid to tl t young lady until she returnsr to the colony. A settlement made by Bradford in favour of his-wife, the Judge refused to recognise 1 in any way. ■ •The Hospital election created a mosi unusual > excitement. Maloney ; headed the v poH for the honorary physician, and Brancy the-Surgical side. The Winton Cup Coursing was finished yesterday, Me Wagner's Sandy being the winner, with Lucy as runner up. Burratta won the Waterloo Purse. lima de Murska continues to charm and draw large audiences. A man named Octavius Baker was committed for trial for personating a father and sanctioning the marriage of aminor. A private London telegram, dated August 17, states that the. wool sales opened about three halfpence lower." It is.believed to have touched the lowest figure for the present. Markets unchanged, Breadstuff's firm. Wheat, 5s Bd. Large bales of tobacco at full rates. LATEST. News reached here last evening of the arrival of the steamer Ceylon at Galle on the 18th, after having been seventeen days under canvas. The Chanticleor, forty-three days out from New Zealand to Hobart I own has not yet arrived. The MacGregor arrived at Sydney yesterday; . - ' Base Coin.—Specie put into a foundation stone. ' - (JTor remainder of Jffetos see Fourth- Page.)