BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2652, 17 August 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM GREVILLE’s TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTER’S AGENTS.) Bluff, August 16th. The s.s. Gothenburg arrived from Melbourne at 7 o’clock this evening. She left Hobson’s Bay on the 11th. She sails for Port Chalmers to-morrow evening. Passengers : For Dunedin—Miss M ’Gavin, Mr and Mrs Barker, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Briscoe, Messrs Wilson, Mackclose, Walden, Salt, Ferras, M’Gavin, Flexman, Stewart, Mills, and Rev. J. Maxwell.

Melbourne, Angus 11th. The Treasurer has moditie I the tariff on manufactured grain to 2s per cental, and on grain to Is per cental. The Golden Age has been wrecked on Vansittart’s Island and tho Ocean Bride on King’s. Both crows were save : - The Macduff has arrived.

Mr Parkes of Sydney, interviewed Mr Duffy on beh df of Hall’s Califonran line. Messrs Bright Bros, and Captain Gray interviewed Mr Duffy with reference to the proposed steam mail service via tho Cape of Good Hope. The steamer Bernard, from Foo-Ohow-Foo direct, twenty-eight days out, reports that prices of teas have advanced. She also brings later English news, but it is unimportant.

A solemn Mass was held in St. Francis’s Cathedral on Sunday last for the murdered Archbishop of Paris. A lug ago train ran off the line near Castlemainc. The driver was bruised, and tbe stoker had one of his arms broken.

A literary fund will probably be established.

The Marquis of Normanby spoke in terms of eulogy of Melbourne and Ballarat as being largely beyond his anticipations. An agitation is going on in the provinces in favour of railways. The merchants are petitioning Parliament to return to measurement duties.

Business generally is unsettled until the definite settlement of fiscal matters.

The Age gives a denial to a statement that has appeared relative to a passage having been taken in the ship Anglesey for Air B. C. Aspinalk Captain Maddison, the commander of the ship, states that he was requested to provide room on board his vessel for Air Aspinall, but decline:! on the ground that several passengers were already engaged to go by his vessel, and it would not be fair to take as fellow-voyag-r Mr Aspinall in his present state. A lady student is to go to the Melbourne University this month for matriculation. A Mutual Clothing Club, on the co-opera-tive principle, has been established at Fit*roy. At Ballarat an engine-driver has been fined Is by Judge Poblman for causing the death of a Chinaman.

The amount of calls in mining companies at Sandhurst in one week was LSOOO ; but the amount of dividends was L 13,500. Arrived.—Emma Jane, Onehunga, and Acacia, from Oamaru. Sailed. —Gamecock, for Port Chalmers. New Zealand wheat is at 5s 5d to 5s 6-1, anti oats at 3b s<l to 3s 7tl. Tookey’s shares at L3O 10b to 1 30 15a.

Sydney. 6000 ounces of gold have been received from Gulgong. 14,0!)0 cases of preserved meats have been Sent to London.

Mr Fraser, representative of the Dutch Government of Java, has interviewed the Government with refcrenc* to a line of steamers to Batavia, via Torres Strait.

Captain Longmuir has been found guilty on two charges of kidnapping, and is remanded for sentence.

The Chamber of Commerce have appointed a deputation to wait upon the Government, and urge them to afford better support to the direct (Hall’s) Californian main line. Sir James Marlin informed the deputation that the Government wore considering the expediency of giving to Mr Hall the subsidy voted for J) ljne of steamers to California. The Marquis of Normandy and his suite proceed to Queensland in tbe Clio. A public luncheon was given to Captain Walker, late of the s.s. Auckland, when he was presented with a purse containing 150 sovereigns. At the wool sales, extreme prices were realised. Adelaide. Tbe Intercolonial Free Trade Bill em powers the Governor to arrange with the other colonies for reciprocal free trade, terminable on one year’s notice. Wheat is at 5s 61 to 5s 7d. GENERAL SUMMARY. In connection with tho exposure of the licentious proceedings at Oakleigh of the pseudo-prophot Bignoll, notice of action for libel has been served upon the Daily Telegraph. Mr J. O. Henderson and wife are the plaintiffs, and damages are laid at LSOOO. Twenty months have passed since the Government of Tasmania—anxious to learn with some pesitiveness whether the salmon fry which went down the Plenty and the Derwent seawards four or five seasons ago had returned to these rivers as salmon or grilse—offered a reward of L3O for the first caught. The reward, however, is still unclaimed, no strange fish of this interesting description having found its way into the net of tho fisherman, or paid passing attention to the fly or the worm of the angler. The Hobart Town M cram/, while hoping that the experiment has not failed in its last stage, after having been so happily carried through in all tho others, admits that appearances at present are not promising.

A favorable report has been received from England on the samples of South Australian olive oil which were sent home. They have been valued at L4B per ton. A public company is being formed at Sydney to fit out twenty whalers—capital, L 50.000.

A correspondent, writing to the Pleasant Creek News, from the Wimmera, states that since last season over one hundred Gormans, many of them with families, have travelled from Adelaide to Horsham, with the view of settling down in that locality. A large number of them possess sufficient means to start in farming, and, as they are all men who have followed the occupation in the sister Colony, they are thoroughly conversant with the best systems requisite hero, in view of the exigencies of the climate. If these families give a favorable report of the ground and climate, a large number will be induced

to follow, so that before tong quite a colony of Germans is expected to settle on the land-* in that neighborh od. When the climate of Australia is understood, remarks the Brisbane Courier, as it must be in time, men will wonder how any of the present race of occupants could fail for want of something to do. Every day brings some fresh instance of the extraordinary capabilities of the country ; thus we learn that the Mitchell district can grow a superior quality of cotton, although hundreds of miles lying between that district and the sea are not suitable to the plant Small parcels of cotton have already reached us from the Mitche l, and we have noticed that Mr Handy, who is now in the district, has forwarded a sufficient quantity to make a feature in the approaching agricultural show. Mr Samuel Uren, a well-known resident of Timor Crook, called at the office of the Maryborough Adrertiser the other day to st :te that a man in his employ, whilst grubbing in a paddock, came across a nest of snakes containg the extraordinary number of 109 of these reptihs, the largest of which, he states, measured four feet in length. Most of them were very young, but they were all taken from the root of one tree.