AUSTRALIA.
(Per s.s. Ringarooma, vi4 Bluff.) Melbourne, Deo. 18. I An important discovery bas been made in the dunes' Quartz Oompany's new reef, at a depth of one thousand feet, being the deepest gold-boaring reef in the Oolony. Large, heavy gold iB eeen in the blue elate, and alao in the | aolid quartz. Thia diaprovea the atatement that the reefa get poorer aa they dip. The Sydney Government will, it ia likely, deapatoh a ateamer on Monday, vi& Fiji, independent of the Pacific Mail Oompany. Lottors by the last mail atato that a very atrong team of profeaaional crieketera will como to the Oolonioa at the end of next year. It ia stated that the Opposition have made all their arrangements for obstructing the progress of business. The Government will submit the seoond reading of the Land Bill on Tuesday. John Smith's.Willard Troupe are passengers by the Ringarooma. Captain Bednell, Marine Surveyor, Queens* land, has disoovored many inaoouraoies in the positions of ialanda on that coaat, as marked on existing charts. Martin, one of the Frenoh refugees, has beon arrested under the Extradition Treaty. He was originally sentenced to twenty years for assassination. A man named Manoovttz last night blew out hia brains over his wife's body, leaving a letter, showing that jealousy was the cause of his aot. The ox-Minister of Lands at a meeting last night said there were twenty members ot the Opposition pledged to the Stonewall polioy.
AUSTRALIA.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 2422, 24 December 1875, Page 2
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