IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 November 1870, Page 2

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

DREADFUL FLOODS.—PEOPLE DRIVEN FROM THE HOUSES.

SUPPLK'S TEIAL,

THE RACES

THE SHIP MALATOA ON" FIRE. By the arrival of the Taranaki we have received later Australian telegrams : — BLUFF. November 12th.—The s.s. Alhambra, Capt. Underwood, arrived here at noon, having left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 7th instant. Passengers : —For Dunedin : Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Miss A. Flexman, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Hawdon ; Mrs. Hudson, Mrs., Master, and Miss Wheeler and servant; Mrs. Sales, Mr. Moodie. For Wellington : Messrs. Gifford and Shaw, Captain Corfield.

MELBOURNE

November 6th.— The Executive have resolved to hang Steery for the Crooked River murder next Monday. —W. Elton's case is postponed for further "medical inquiry.—Terrible floods all over the colony until last Saturday. The Murray continued to rise at Echuca until almost the entire township was submerged. The people were driven from their houses, and the Government sent tents a»d boats by rail to save life and property. Over two hundred tents were pitched on the high grounds to give the inhabitants slielter in. The water is now receding, and it is believed the worst is over. —Bills have been introduced for the Wine, Beer, and Spirit Statute, for the regulation and inspection of mines, and also an amended Borough Statute. An amended Real Property Act has also been introduced.—ln the Council a bill ias been introduced to amend the insolvent--/ law.— The great horse exposition commences this day. —The Victorian Racing Club's Spring Meeting commenced on Saturday, the stii instant. The Duke of Edinburgh, the Govrnor, and family were present, and there wai a middling attendance. The weather in tie morning was dull, cloudy, and sultry, but before the Derby was run heavy rain set in, which continued till evening. During the day the following races were run : — Melbourne Stakes: Tim WKfller won very easily.—Hotham Handicap: Nimble Foot. Course was heavy and slippery during this race .—The Derby : Mr. Taif declared to win with Phyrrhus.. Florance came away from the rest, and at the back of the course the'boy was unable to hold her. _he won hard held. Phyrrhus second, and it is doubtful which was third. There was g.-'at cheering at the finish.—Essendon Stakes* Trump Card.— Footscray Plate: The Dane.—The racing throughout was good. Trump Card and Tim Whiffler have improved in the betting for the cup. Little doing hovever.—At a meeting of the National Bank an amendment was rendered unnecessarvby the directors at once resigning. The meting was adjourned till the 9th December, vhen the new board will be elected. —An advertisement appears in the A rents calling for a>plicat.ions for the chair of the Professor of B&tural Science in the Otago University fix hundred I persons attended the ball 'v ail of the Prince Alfred LTospital which wa.& great financial success.—The Duke returns to Sydney to-morrow, his leave expiring en tlie 9th inst. — In a case of hreach of promise of marriage, Humphrey versus Hell, a verdict "vas given for plaintiff: damages £1000.—^up]..e's trial is fixed for the 15th. —The banks have reduced exchanges ii —Sixty days, two per cent.; thirty days, two and a-balf. —Bread suffs firm. Flour, £!__ 10s. to £12 13s. Wheifc scarce, at 5s 6d to"ss 9d. Oats a. present d\\\ t at 3s 5d to 3 S ga.—At the oyening of the W ool sales this week there was a goo 1 attendance, and biddings were fai-ly animated. Greasy brought 5d to °7§d; hand washed, 941 to lOJd; scoured, Is to 1? 3?d ; fleeces, 11. to Is l_-d. —Sugars : Brth primer sorts have realise an advance on previous sabs. . SYDNEY.

November sth. —The reports of t_e insurance polities on the steamer Waiin&,, run down by tin Avoca, do no", cover collision.— The United Service Company pays no dividend. —barker has beei._ elected "br Kiima. —Th Government decided to engage the unempl^ eel to construct a military roa^ to Botany ; hd also authorised the formation of two additional batteries for the volunteer artillery.—F<*rs are entertained fo* the safety of the lashing Wave, from Foo Cji_, w . —Public meltings have been held ag* lU i against the proposed tariff—The Treasure. has introduce a new scale of measurement duties, and staled that the Government would not accept al defeat on the Budget as a Ministerial depat.—Wool sales are heavy ; a great portion d that offered being withdrawn. —The electiori committee unseated Baker for acting as I member of the Goldfieids Commission. — iinost the entire cargo of susars by the St Mark were sold by auction : Yellow counter] realised from £33 12s to £38; five yellov crystals, _537 5s to £3S ; fifteen white, £_0 to £42 10s.—The Malta takes a number of French officers fro_i Noumea for Europe.—The Ingleberth's tea has been offered by auction; only one line being sold.—Tie Germans have sent £600 more to the pitriotic fund'at Berlin.—The William Diithi. reports fighting the ship Malatoa, of Greenock, on fire on the 23rd September.' No men or belts were visible.— Postage on letters to Tsmania has been reduced to threepence.—Jreadstuffs quiet;— Sales of brandies at 7s 3d./ - '

ADELAIDE. November s.—Two lots of the northern territory bonds were taken up by the Savings Bank —ten thousand payable in 1900 and five at £7 12s 6d premium, and ten thousand in 1900, and ten at £8 Is premium.— Fresh accounts have been received of great damage by the floods in various parts. — The land Bill has passed its third reading. — The news about the crops is not so unfavourable as we anticipated.—The Assembly has been asked to appoint a select committee to investigate the charge that Hughes, whilst Treasurer," 3 favoured the National Bank in the matter of certain bonds.—A motion to reduce the civil servants' salaries five per cent all round was negatived. —Little doing in breadstuffs—wheat quoted at 5s 8d ; flour, at £13 to £14 10s.—An offer has been received from English capitalists to construct the Port Augusta railway. A five feet three inch guage at £4000, and a three feet six inch guage £3750 per mile ; Government guaran • tee six per cent—Todd Ross, Port Darwin Telegraph surveyor is at Stranway Springs.— Ross had been to 23£ degrees of latitude, and reports favourably, of the country. HOB ART TOWN,

November s.—Arrived —Chanticleer, from Oamaru. —Derwent Hunter, whaling barque, entered Recherche Bay to try out ten tuns oil. The Government and Captain Coote agreed to terms for the construction of a mail line of railway by an English Company— The Launceston Executive have commuted the sentence of death on Connelly for murder on account of extreme old age.