LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 290, 6 July 1868, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

NEW SOUTH WAIVES. Sydney, llth June. The notice given by the Government of New South Wales to withdraw from the present service of the P. and O. Company will expire in October next. It is said that the last mail to England conveyed the representations of the Government on the subject of the mail service* generally, and that the minute of the PostmasterGeneral contained a comprehensive review of 'the whole question, contending that the Imperial subsidy should be given only in aid of a scheme of several routess; on the principle adopted by the Jlate Intercolonial Conference. The Postmaster.General was informed that no other arrangement would give satisfaction to the three eastern colonies, viz., New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand. News has been received from Warwick that there are about 200 miners working on the new diggings opened there, and on the average they are obtaining fair results. At Nashville there are now about fifty reefs being worked, minimum yield is at present half announce of gold to the ton. There is a large population on these diggings. Dr Beer, who after serving a sentence for attempting toprocureabortiou has been released from custody, now asks the Government to prosecute the husband of the woman upon whom the offence was committed (a Mr Brown, of the Customs department), for perjury. . ' It is believed that the Chinaman who committed the series of murders at Avisford, reported yesterday, upon Mr Lee and family, was incensed against Mr Lee on account of some mining dispute which existed between them. He is still at large, although the police have scoured the country round in search of him.

A telegram from Grenfell says hundreds of people|have left there for the new rush, which is only fourteen miles distant from that town. Gold has been struck at a depth of thirty feet, with a prospect of 4dwt I7gr to twelve dishes full of stone, and alluvial gold had been got, up to 4gr per tin dishful of washdirt.

Sydney, 15th Juue. A farmer named Luker, residing near Singleton, on the Hunter Eiver, has died from the effects of being inoculated whilst skinning a sheep wnieh. was inoculated with the Cumberland disease. Luker's son, who was occupied with his father at the time, is very ill from the same cause. The Saxonia, steamer, has arrived from Maryborough with 2800 oz of gold, the produce of the Gympie Creek Diggings. Johnson, the manager of the Bank of New South "Wales at Sofala, who it will be remembered spread the report that his bank had been burglariously entered and robbed, and afterwards confessed to having embezzled the missing money, was to-day fully committed for trial at the next sessions at Bathurst. Sydney, 16th June. Mr Eattray obtained a (Verdict today against the Government, with £IOO damages, for injuries received by him on the occasion of a recent railway accident. The celebrated racehorse Fishhook and his late stable companion, Barometer, are on board thej;City of Adelaide s., which sailed to-day, for Melbourne. QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, 15th June. Later news is to hand from the Gympie Creek diggings, and the rush to Jimna Creek on the Tabber Creek, a place about 55 miles distant from Gympie Creek. There are about 2000 men at work there, and Mr Commissioner King, who went up from Nashville to report upon the rush, states that there is room for a thousand. The indications of the surrounding oountry are decidedly favorable to the existence there of a goldfield. The sinking is but 3 feet deep, and the average yield of the prospects obtained is 5 grs. to the tin dish of washdirt. SOUTH AUSTEALIA. Adelaide, 11th June. The Aerated Bread Company has declared a dividend at the rate of one halfpenny per share. The fossil bones found in the Burra have been pronounced by the scientific men here as those of an animal of the species Diprotodon, Australia. 12th June. The population of the colony is now 1 according to the latest returns, about 174,000 souls. Adelaide, 13th June. John Hallett, Esq., of the Adelaide Land and Gold Company, an old colo-

mist, having been in South Australia a (resident since, 1836, died last night. The eldest son ofthehon. Mr Santo, Minister for Public "Works, is also dead. The Bunyip this week has been •printed on paper manufactured at Eamsden's paper mill, Melbourne. Adelaide, 15th June. The crew of the Elizabeth, from Mauritius, which arrived to-day, are ill from the effects of the fever which has been so prevalent at the Mauritius. One of the men died on the passage, and the remainder of those who are sick have been sent to the hospital. The captain found great difficulty in navigating his ship owing to his being short-handed. Adelaide, 16th June. The dates brought by the Elizabeth from Mauritius are to the 30th April, but as the Edith Smith, since arrived in Melbourne, has later news, there is nothing worth telegraphing. A requisition has been preseuted to the Major of Adelaide, Mr Fuller, praying him to call a public meeting to give the inhabitants an opportunity of protesting against the proposed appointment of Mr Pope Hennessy to the office of Governor of South Australia. The second experiment made with Dahlke's patent filters, which came off on Monday, was not a success. Mr James Wardle, an insolvent, was to-day sentenced to two years' imprisonment for fraudulent insolvency. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, 17th June. Mr M'Donald, the late manager of the Commercial Bank at Young, has been acquitted Of the charge of embezzlement on which he had been arrested. Messrs L. E. Threlkeld and Co., the auctioneers, have filed their schedule. Their liabilities amount to nearly £.130,000, and their assets are set down at £SO.

SOUTH ATTSTKALIA. Adelaide, 17th June. Mr Dahlke, the aaventor of the patent filters' who has been submitting his invention to the tests of public experiment, was found dead in his bed this morning, at the Crlobe Hotel. A post mortem examination has been made to-day, but the result has not transpired. It is believed, however, that that the immediate cause of death was the excitement occasioned by the failure of his latest experiments acting ■o;i a highly nervous and sensitive temperament. As far -as cau be gathered, it would appear that the secret of the new filter is likely to be -lost though Mr Dahlke's sudden demise. 5.30 p.m. :An inquest was held this afternoon, on the remains of Mr Dahlke, and, in accordance with the medical produced, a ■verdict was returned that the unfortunate gentlemen died of heart disease. Notices of appeal to the Privy Council have been served upon Colonel Hamley, the Acting Governor, by Mr Boothby, late judge of the Supreme Court. The appeal to is made against the action of the Executive and of Parliament, in dismissing him from his office. The Government have determined amongst other retrenchments, s to reduce the expendi-ture in connection "with the Volunteer fforce. Two ingots of pure silver, the produce of five tons of stuff, have been lodged in the bank here. The stone from which this silver was obtained was the refuse taken from an old mine near Adelaide.