BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2561, 3 May 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OREVILLE’s TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTER’S AGENTS.) Bluff, 9 a.m. The Tararna, from Melbourne, arrived this morning. She left Hobson’s Bay at 3 p.m. on the 27th ult, and brings 5 cabin and 13 steerage passengers, together with 343 tons of cargo for all ports. Passenger list : Mrs. Richard Powell and child, Mr, W, B. Cooke, Mr. Mirams, Mrs. Bazaine, Miss Levy, Mr, O’Meagher, and 13 in the steerage, Melbourne, April 27. Parliament was opened by commission on Tuesday. The Governor reads his speech this afternoon, Mr, Duffy withdrew from the candidature for the Speakership. Captain M‘Mahon was elected unopposed. Commercial.—Wool is firm ; sales of Hour are made at Ll4 15s. Port Macdonnell wheat auctioned at (is Gd j New Zealand wheat was withdrawn for Gs. Six thousand bushels of N.Z. oats were auctioned yesterday at 3s. Gd. to 3s 7d ; inferior qualities realised 3s 3d to 3s 4d. Sales of Devoe’s kerosene were made at 2s 2d. The sugar market is heavy. Teas are in better request. Twelve hundred cases of J.D.K.Z. were sold at auction at 11s nessey’s pale brandy at Gs 9d,

Sydney, The City of Melbourne arrived on Friday evening. The wool sales are less active. Adelaide. Arrived Annie from New York. She has kerosene f r Dunedin. Blenheim, May 3. A second lire was discovered on board the barque Malay, at three o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, and extinguished. Persons who have arrived iu Blenheim from Port Underwood, state that it is supposed the lire originated between some bales of liax and skins. The vessel where the llax and grain were stored, and the outside of the bales of liax were only burnt. The extent of the damage is thirty bales of wool, forty-live of llax, and sixty sacks of grain. The vessel is uninsured, but the whole of the cargo is insured. It is expected an inquiry will be held. The cause of the lire is unknown, but the circumstances connected with it are suspicious. The captain is absent at Wanganui.

Wellington, May 3. Charles Brill, bookbinder, from Melbourne, was found drowned this morning. It is suspected that he committed suicide. The deceased lately lost a lawsuit, and lias been in low spirits .ever since. At the coroner’s inquest, just ended, a verdict was returned of “ Found drowned.”

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