LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 22, 8 June 1868, Page 3

LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA.

1 By way of Sydney wo havo tolographic nows from Melbourne to May 29, A Melbourne telegram of that dato, givos tho Following :' —Parliament was.-opouod to-day. Tho Vico-Hognl Speech was brief, It regrets tho delay in calling members together—refers to tho attack on tho Princo, and thauka Providonce ifor hia preservation— laments the absence of an Appropriation Act, in touching which his Excellency say_, desirous of asking of you only such Supply as may bo nocossary for ; defraying liabilities actually incurred during 1807 and the first half of tho curroht yoar, with tho exception of the Wator Supply Loan." Attontion is not invited to any mon9ureß of goneral legialation at present. In the Council, tho Address was carried without a division ; in tho Assombly, Mr M'Oulloeh moved an adjournmo o Juno 2, which was carried. Mr Iroland roturnod in tho steamer Alhambra. Gunner Dooloy ia sufferiug a relapse, and is dying, Mr A, K, Smith read a paper before tho Boyal Socioty on a method of keeping casks air-tight by a bag boing introduced into ft cask connected with a cistorn, and as tho wino is drawn tho bag fills. Thore is later news from Mauritius by threo days, but unimportant. Broadstuifs aro quiot; speculation in iron and brandy. A Bathurst telogram of May 29 says: —Tho mail coaoh mot'with a shocking aoeidont this morningr-nt C o'clock. It was coming down tho hill into tho Frying Pan, whon tho broak waa found to be unworkable, and the horsos wont at a gallop. A collision with a log, at a sharp curve, upset the coach and smashed it. Tho drivor, Hamilton, was killod on tho instant, and tho passengers woro all moro or less injurod —a Mrs Grovillo, of Mitcholl'a Oreok, most severely, A tologram datod Sofala, May 29, says •—The managor o£*tho Bank of New South Walos hero, who roportod that upwards of 4JIOOO had boon abstracted from the safo on Monday morning last, was arrestod this overling by Sergeants Garvoy and Casoy, charged with embeswlcmont, Those two policomen havo mado groat efforts to traco tho facts of this caso. Au Adelaido telogram of May 29 savs :—Good rain ia reported to havo ialion at tho Gawlor ranges.

t^That was a smart youngster, who, hearing hia mother remark that she wi}» fond of musio, exclaimed, " Then why don't you boy mo a drum ? " A correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial says;—" Tho ambition of every young Boston lady is to live in a brown stone front, with two bow windows, and a brass knocker, beforo she dies. Havingnccompliahed this, and attended a course of medical lectures, she Is ready to depart in peaco, for after that all la vanity." People of Paris are stated to be certainly improving a littio in their notions of publio decenoy. At the last opera masked oall a woman was mobbed nnd fairly driven out of ball, because she had appeared with great effrontery in a dress which, to quote Talleyrand, began too lato nnd finished too soon; but, en revanche, a well-known editor of A leading journal was hustled and compelled to retire, because he unwittingly trod on the too amplo skirts of another lady.