LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 19.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 152, 29 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 19.

Governor Dow en id obtaining great popularity, and has brrri vmting most of the public iii>titiitio»3. He was pecsent ot tho Easter encampment for two doj s. Tlie w father proved favorable. Mount and MorrK of (lie Carl notoriety, linve been found guilty of murders, and hate been sentenced to 15 j ears' penal tsomttulc, where the Secretary of State may direct Mr Lord, the retiring President, advocated that the Cahforniuu M.ul Sen itv tci'mimm should beat Melbourne, as more advantageous than New Zealand and Amorici Tlio German immigrant ship Alardus, from Hamburg, bound for lirutbnne, with :) 10 immigrants, amongst whom were 2>S deaths during the voyage, put m hore. The captain jumped overboard on Thuridii} morning. The mate has been incapacitated since Januan last. Joseph JJreed, steward of the Tararua, died hero yester<lim, fvom h'lu'tnrc o£ the skull. Jle fell from tho gangwiiv. The ship Calcutta, just arrived, reports fulling m with an abnndoned ihip about XXX) tons burden, in J)ecembcr last. Tlie !Ne\\ Soulli \\ iiles A>srmbli have agreed to go into coininiKec on the Californian mail service. The Government will not. grant a Mibbidj to the Suez line, if Melbourne be made the tenmnu*. Captain Towns k, dead. ■\Vhe.it and flour is unchanged ; the former is quoted .it s*. 7d to .">s 9d. J'rime oats aic in good lequest. Good feed oats have been sold at !<s 7d. Private telegrams lrom AlniiritiiH anuounco an advance uli U 2 10s 2>er ton in sugars and tli.it the miirket h quite bare in whiten. A% a eonsequencc the rise here is fully t'2 per ton. Adelaide, April 1(1. JJJJTIie ban|iie Springbok left Porl TXirum on fauimn Ifi, with 81 j»as-,ungers, and hat nol l»c( u hi\ud vi miicc. The warvcsgeln hitve been instructed to make a search. A large e\jiort of wheat continues, ijobnrt lown, April 18. Sir Robert Ollicer roports a large bhoul of salmon in tho Upper IJerwcnt.