AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 218, 20 September 1870, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL CHUTE LEAVES FOR

ENGLAND

LATEST MARKET .REPORTS.

THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Compiled fob the New Zealaxd Peess Telegeaph Association.]

MELBOURNE, Sept. 10.

Breadstuff's are firmer ; flour, £12 to £15 ; maize is harder at 3s lOd; wheat is scarce; o.its dull at 3s 2d. Speculations are going on in brandies. Candles are firm at lOjd.

The Triton, a Norwegian brig, has arrived and been placed in quarantine.

The Government has decided to enrol twenty artillerymen at five shillings per day, and also to put the ordnance in thorough repair. They will lodge the volunteers in the barracks, find call out the militia and naval brigade, which is converted into a royal naval reserve.

Edward Marwood Elton, a waiter, and formerly employed. at Gartou's Hotel, has murdered his illegitimate son, only two years of age. He has been found guilty and committed for trial.

The committee of the National Gallery have dcci led on commissioning Mr. Grully to paint a fifty pound picture of New Zealand scenery. Ballarat lias been proclaimed a city. Parliament will meet in October. Ra.vlings, J. P., refuses to give a statement of the Royal Society's funds.

The Government intend prosecuting Dr. C;' Bey for unlawfully administering an over-dose of opium, thereby causing a Chinaman's death.

A Dutch East India vessel has been placed in quarantine.

General Chulagoes home in six weeks, via San Francisco.

Arguments in re Supple were heard on Thursday, but decision was rese ved.

SYDNEY,

The races were well attended." The Craven P.ate was won by Tim Whifller. Great Metropolitan—Croydon, first ; Tim Whifller, second.

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Ten thousand tons of cnftl are stored at New Caledonia. ADELAIDE. Chas. Matthews has armed. The Government hare decided that v. less the P. & O. steamers will touch at some South Australian port that colony will withdraw from thecontract on the first opportunity. £10,000 has been voted for defences. The protection tariff proposed by the Treasurer is generally condemned.