SUMMARY OF AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1852, 7 April 1863, Page 5

SUMMARY OF AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE.

(from the daily times' correspondent.) Melbourne, 21st March. Political meeting at St. George's Hall numerously attended. Resolutions unanimously passed condemnatory of Government. Orpheus . fund reached £300. Benefit under distinguished patronage given at Theatre Royal in aid.

Electoral Act passed Assembly. Small rush taken place at Stringer's Creek, Gipps Land. Prospect, quarter to half ounce to dish. Bogatyr has left for Sydney, Sea Nymph, Jane, and Red Jacket sailed for Dunedin. Latter takes six hundred. Review on St. Patrick's day postponed on account of rainy weather. Maori warriors gone to England in Dover Castle. Jeßner elected for South Western Province. Contract for part of Echuca line let yesterday to John Bourne for £45,600. Tariff conference will take place at end of next week. Woman named Surah Breeze died from flight caused by handling a dead frog. Gothenburg sails Monday. Hydra and Andrew sail shortly. Arrived: City of Hobart, Blue Jacket Go-' thenburg. Several robberies from New Zealand diggers reported. St. Armand silver mines proving rich ; 560 ounces to 30 tons crushing. United Victorian Eleven to play twenty Geelong cricketers. Red Jacket (?) and Conway about to leave for Otago. Select Committee of Assembly to secure to Victorian railways river trade of Murray and Darling. Another of the Murray river steamers ha 3 sailed for Otago. £5,000 for discovery of a gold field, and £5,000 for a coal field, proposed in South Australia. £3,000 granted to Stewart and associates fur last exploration. Clarke bushranger, apprehended ia New South Wales. Confessed to knowing murder of Cirkle, hotel-Keeper. Implicated Gardiner, Gilbert, and Meally. Mcßride, formerly constable, pleaded guilty to perjury and conspiracy, sentence, 5 years on roads. Heavy gales in Queensland. Government cutter Latellite lost. Crew saved. .