VICTORIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1887, 27 June 1863, Page 3

VICTORIA.

We have Melbourne papers to the 10th inst.

A Pbetty PiOTUBE.—The Age, a strong opponent of the Ministry thus paints the present state of affairs :— " The finances of the country are in utter confusion ; the Land Act is s wreck, disgraceful to the intelligence of the community; property is daily deteriorating; population has not increased, and our industrial resources remain undeveloped— while every office in the State is crammed with the servitors and vile agents of the Ministry. It is time that this state of things came to an end, and there is reason to believe that it is not far off. An M.P. Drunk and Disobdebly. — The police charge sheet yesterday morning contained the name of an illustrious delinquent in the list of " drunk and disorderly." Mr Frazer member for Creswick, chairman of the Police Committee, was an involuntary witness at an early hour yesterday morning, to the efficiency of the police dicipline in Melbourne. A victim to the seductive influences of his Excellency's hospitality, Mr Frazer, found himself at halfpast four a.m. in a highly privileged coudition, in the city lock-up. A row in the street beginning with the smashing of a cab Jamp and a. fight with the cabby, ended in the hon member's incarceration in the place appointed for the reception of drunk and disoirleriy ruffians by the provident care o£ the police authorities, fjpou the charge sheet being called over in the City Court, Mr Frazer failed to enter an appearance and forfeited his recognizance. It is not yet known whether the hon member will claim the benefit of privilege, or whether, following an illustrious example, he will appeal to his constituents. — Age. The " Name of the Colony " movement at Sydney proceeds apace. Amongst the latest suggestions we find "Alfredia," proposed for the day when the Queen's second son sets foot upon the shores of New South Wales. Another writer thinks it would be better to c:ill the land "Alberta," in memory of the late Prince Con sort, and an appropriate nominal conjunction with Victoria, for "the names of our good Queen and her illustrious cousort," he argues, "would be immortalized together in the Southern Hemisphere. Another suggests that the land should be called " Volleria," from the Latin for a fleece, ?,nd no doubt Apropos of fleecing, or to get rid of unpleasant associations, that "Botany" shonld be transformed into '♦Flora Bay 1" A third writer— and they all deliver their euphonious conceptions in the same number of the Sydney Morning Herald— thinks that "Orienlia" would be the most elegant designation. We have files from Brisbane to the 30th ult. The colony was iv all the excitement of a general election, the results for or against the powers that were, being only matters of speculation. We find a novelty in constitutional life in a judge addressing the public through the press on political affairs. Mr Justice Lutwyche, of the Supreme Court, according to the statement of the Queensland Ghtardim, had " published a political manifesto iv the columns of a contemporary," exhorting the colonists not to vote for Messrs Herbert, Macalister or Moffatt! " Imagine," says ihe Guardian, " Sir Redmond Barry, upon the eve of an election, publishing an address to the colonists of Victoria not to vote for Mr O'Shanassy or Mr Duffy." It would appear from' the statement of the journalist, — for the judge's political manifesto has not reached us—that bis Honor is dissatisfied with the extravagance, speaking in a pecuniary way of the Herbert Ministry.