BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2273, 19 August 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Wellington, Aug. 19. The Government scheme for the construction of railways was shadowed forth by the Colonial Treasurer last night as follows-Dunedin to Clutha O ' • • • by guarantee not exceeding per cent for a period of 35 years. The imp pot to exceed LSOOO per mile. The Government to have the alternative power of making the line itself at a rate not exceeding LSOOO a mile. From Timaru to Temuka, Sclwyn to UaJkaia, Christchurch to llangiora, Pictou.to lilephoim, Nelson to Cobden, Auckland to Waikato.

Bluff, August 19. The Claud Hamilton, Capfc. Underwood, from Melbourne, arrived at 7 a.in. She left Melbourne on the 13th, at G p.m. Passengers for Dunedin. ■ Messrs Proud*?, Adams, *Tago, (kibble, Air and Airs Haggitt, Mr ami Mgs Wright and family, Misses lions, ItobertsLn, Forrest; and six in the steerage. Melbourne, August 13. The ship Kenc has arrived crippled from Chareutc. Snow lias fallen at Ballarat and Wood’s Point, A press and plate have Loan tinned at Bcnalla used for forging live-pound notes on the branch bank of New South Wales. Six notes were passed by a mini rniiped Smith, who with an accomplice named Dante has been arrested, Dante served twelve years in Pentridgc for forgery, and was lately released. Thrpe men were drowned at Lake Cooper by the upsetting of a boat—one man saved. The new Town Hall was opened with a grand concert. Horsley’s cantata Euterpe ” was much approved. A grand concert by 500 performers was to close the festivities. The musical profession wished to repeat “ Flfterpe,” but the Mayor declined, as it was too late to alter the arrangements.

Fifty-six horses have accepted for the Melbourne Cup, Manuka is the favorite. Mr Christophcrson, chief engineer of the Malmesbury Reservoir, and two assistants, Shakespeare and Ward, have been suspended, Phillip Barry, a well-known reporter for the press, has committed suicide. Flour and wheat firm. Flour, LI2 5s to Ll2 15s. Wheat, 6s to 7s. Sugars dull; large exports from Mauritius reported.