TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 33, 29 June 1870, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

.. (From our own I'urreqwnihnt.) _, Dcnbdi.V, Tuesday,,4.sa' p.m. The steamer Gothenburg arrived ■. at Holcitika from Melbourne yesterday; The subjoined items of Australian news were received by her : "' NEW SOUTH WAt/ES Power, the bushranger, has been conjo, nutted for trial. Mr Palmer, President of the Legislative Council, is too indisposed to attend to his parliamentary duties. The Imperial troops stationed in New South Wales are to leave in August. The tolegraph-oflice at Gunnedah was broken into, robbed, and attempted to, be burnt, on the 13th inst. Two nuggets, one of 90 ozs. and the other 30 ozs., have been found on tho new diggings at Geelong. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Mr Bagot, Chief Secreiai'y of South Australia, has resigned his seat in the Assembly, having made an assignment t6 his creditors. TASMANIA. A rich quartz reef has been 'discovered at Blackboy diggings, Fingal. By the Rangitoto, which arrived at the Bluff to-day, the folowing news has been received : Meetings of the Intercolonial Conference are strictly private—the press being excluded. It is believed the Tasmanian delegates stated their views on Intercolonial Customs union at great length, also; that Mr M'Culloch submitted a resolution pressing upon the Home Government to undertake the protection of the Fijis." Inspectors Nicholson and Hare have refusal any pecuniary reward for arreting Power. Thomas Bloomfield Smith, mining agent has been killed by a railway train. The fi: st sod of the North-Eastern Railway tos turned on the 20 th inst. Mr Alexander Fiffe squatter, has been chosen member for Rockhampton. The floods at Wagga Wagga have subsidized. The Government have appointed a Law Reform Commission, of which the Chief Jus'ice is gazetted president. The French transport Eurydale has been wrecked on Starbuck Island. No liveswere lost