ARRIVAL OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN. The Evening Post. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 273, 22 December 1865, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN.

The Evening Post. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1865.

The Australian arrived at one o'clock to-day, from Melbourne, having called at Southern Forts, fhe left Melbourne on the 12th, and arrived at Port Chalmers on the 18th instant. Captain Fain reports that the English Mail had not. been telegraphed at Adelaide upon the South Australian leaving Melbourne. Tbe fourth Legislative Assembly is digsolved. A proclamation to that effect, and further proroguing the Legislative Council, appears in the Melbourne papers. The writs will be issued at once. The questions to be submitted to the constituencies were discussed at a meeting of Ministerial supporters. The principal issues are to be the tariff introduced by the Government last session in the same shape and form, and a reform of the Legislative Council. Adelaide flour meets with a good trade demand at £24, £24 10s, and £25. Californian flour has been sold at £22, 105. Chilian wheat hat realised in trade parcels 9s 3d. Maize goes off very freely, at the extreme rate of ss, now asked, several 500-bag parcels having been quitted at this figure. Oats are firm at 5s 9d, at which business is pending. The schooner St. Kilda, which arrived at Sydney on the 10th December, was seized by the British consul at Apia, for having been Engaged In smuggling on the New Zealand coast. The former captain, supercargo, and crew are on their way to Sydney, under arrest, in the ship John Wesley. The Rev. Mr. Swainton, Wealeyan Minister, who was recommended by the Irish Conference to take a sea trip for the benefit of his health, died on board the ship St.

Vincent on her passage out from London to South Australia. His wife and four children were on board with him. The Sydney Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution in favour of the Customs tariff, as proposed by the Ministry. A public meeting was held in the Ex. change, at which the proposed tariff was condemned. The Adelaide Register, of 1 lth December, commenting upon the non-arrival of the English mail, says that during the last two years the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have been 82 days behind, and that the company ought therefore to be ! held liable for about £16,000 penalties.