AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3977, 13 December 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Melbourne, December 6. The December Suez mail left yesterday and took 108,000 ounces of gold, and £75,000 in specie. The last fourteen miles of the Ballarat and Ararat railway have been tendered for, and accepted at £43,006. Forty-seven New Zealand medals are ready for distribution.

The Hamilton Post Office has been burglariously entered and robbed.

There is great depression in mining stocks.

Wool is easier. At Goldsborough's recent sales the previous rates were barely maintained.

Mr Godfrey Hbwitt is dead

Indignation meetings are being held against the German Consul, Mr Brahe, for a slanderous despatch to the German Government.

Flour, £12 15s ; wheat, 5s Gd to 5s 8d Tasmanian oats, 4s 3d to 4s sd.

Sydney, December 5.

152 candidates have passed the University examination. The Wesleyan College was the highest.

The Marquis of Normandy is visiting Governor Robinson.

Wool is easier. Fleece, Is Cd to Is llf d ; greasy, B|d to lOf d. Loder, a wealthy squatter, has been fined £100 for rioting. A large vessel has been sighted bottom up.

_ A Calcutta telegram states that no new rice is obtainable. Oilmen's stores are easier. There have been 52 entries for the Sydney Cup. The whaler Onward has put in leaky. Adelaide, December 5. The Trans-Continental Railway debate is proceeding.

Elizabeth Woodcock, for poisoning her husband, will be hanged on the 30th instant.

The Northern Territory Loan Bill has passed. The Council opposed the Education Bill.

Wheat, 5s 3d to 5a 4d. There have been 30 entries for the Adelaide Cup.

Adelaide, December 5. A fish has been caught, weighing three pounds, presumed to be a salmon.