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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2228, 28 June 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Si ;(I’ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) V,.,[The fpllpM'ing was published by us as ap “ Extra " to-day AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Bluff, June 28. -The s.s. Rangitobo left Hobson’s Bay at 2 p.m. on the 23rd June, cleared the Heads at 5 p.m.'; passed -'Swih at 2 p.m. the following day, and experienced S. W. winds ; passed the Solandeys jd[uvpig .the flight pf and arrived at the Bluff at 11.30; a.in. the next day. T'l‘4■.,/ Passenger List! For Dunedin: Messrs Bpul, Neill, Munro, and Lampton. For Lyttelton : Mrs Wigley ; and 10 in steerage.

' Cargo.—For Dunedin, 84 tons ; Lyttelton, 44 tons; Nelson, 5 tons.’ 1 4 Melbourne, June 23,

Business,. dull. Flour nominal, unchanged. Wheat at 4sMld_ to 5s Id. New Zealand wheat, Is od to 4s (id. Oats wanted; juices ffxm, at 3s 3d to 3s 4-id. Maize falling, at 4s'2cl to 4s 3dr "‘\Ydsr slilesliiisF" 2«4 bales sold, yesterday at slight advance on previous rates. | The Anti-State-;Aid Bill has been read a first time in the Council.; .Strclng opposition is expected. .•, ■ ■ *

;. Tlje Intercolonial Conference meetings are strictly private. The Prpss lias 1 been excluded, and little knolvn 'regarding-• their deliberations;' ’lt! is believed' that the Tasmanian delegates stated .their views .on the subject of jan -Intercolonial Customs Union at great length ; also,' that Sir Janies McCulloch submitted resolutions pressing the Home Government to undertake ijhe protection of the Fijis.

Arrived—TararUa*on 21st.- , Sir J limes Palmer is still indisposed, j Insjjcotors Nicolsou and Hare refuse to accept any pecuniary reward for arresting Power. Sergeant Mohtford has been promoted to a SpbInspectorship, > Mr Thomas Blomfield Smith, mmiug,agent, was run over .-and killed |>y

a railway train at Richmond on SuHday. Y The turning of tiiejpnft the North-eastern Railway took fplace on the 20th. Sydney. Mr Alexander Fyfe, squatter, formerly of Geelong, has been chosen member for Rockhampton. A man named Spencer, representing himself as a. clergyman, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for vagrancy. The wool sales are active. Greasy wool brought advanced rates. Mr James Mein Loder, the wellknown squatter, is dead. The floods at Wagga Wagga are subsiding. The Government have appointed the Law Reform Commission. The Chief Justice is gazetted president. The French transport Euryalie has been wrecked on Sfcarbuck Island. No lives were lost. Adelaide. The Evangelical Alliance are taking enei-getic measures to abolish night permits to public-houses. The Chief Secretary has promised his support to the movement. The com market iis firm, Sales : Wheat, 5s sd.