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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2681, 20 September 1871, Page 3

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(THOM greville’s telegram company, beuter’s agency.) Bluff, September 20. The Gothenburg left Hobson’s Bay at 3.40 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day. She sales for Dunedin to-night. Passengers.—For Dunedin—Rev. T. Roseby and Mrs Roseby, Miss Shooworth, Mrs Catoinore and infant, Mr and Mrs Wade, Mr and Mrs Ellis, 3 children, and two servants, Mrs Booth, Mrs Woodward, Mr and Mrs R. Brownrigg, Miss Brownrigg,- Mr, Mrs, and Miss Short, Sir W. F. Stawell (Chief Justice of Victoria), Mr Moore, Mr Berghoff, and Mr Graves. Melbourne, September 14, A railway accident occurred through a collision on the Melbourne and Hobson’s Bay railway. Several persons were injured, but none seriously. Morris Devereaux alias Sleighman, lately from New Zealand, has been arrested bn a charge of uttering spurious cheques. The prospectus of the new Karaka (Thames) Quartz Mining Company has been issued. . The sentence of G. H. Supple has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The Intercolonial Postal Conference sits to-morrow. The representatives of Adelaide, Sydney, and Tasmania, have arrived. The Victoria Post Office Amendment Act her passed. Theonly change is the reduction of postage in newspapers to Jd. More witnesses in the Tichborne case are turning up. An inquiry is proceeding into the charges preferred against Mr Young manager of the National Bank. A Ministerial trip down the Bay by the Cerebus and Nelson takes place tomorrow week. There is much annoyance felt here at the detention of the Nevada’s mails at Auckland. Mr Vogel’s announcement that Mr Webb intended to visit Australia in the next steamer of his line is not believed here, as the Californian papers report his departure for New York. The report presented at the annual meeting of the Victorian Shipowners Association is satisfactory. Adelaide, Sept. 14. The wheat and flour market is dull, and shows a strong downward tendency. Parcels have'been sold at 4s 9d for export. Christchurch, Sept, 19, The Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting yesterday carried the following resolution ; That, without entering into the question of free trade or protection, the committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce approve of the action taken by the General Government for imposing, for revenue purpoaas, a protective duty on grain and flour imported into this Colony. At the meeting called to consider Mr Macandrew’s resolutions, the followingjwas carried, “ That the colonisation of the country cannot be successfully conducted by the Colonial or Provincial Governments, as at present constituted ; it is therefore expedient that Provincial Governments should be abolished, and that a representative body should be established in each island, to possess, in addition to the powers now belonging to Provincial governments and legislatures, the sole power of controlling and conducting within the island which it represents, the departments of lands, works, and immigration, and of appropriating and applying any revenue of lands other than the consolidated revenue, as defined by the Public Revenue Act. Wellington, Sept. 20. Bishop Moran delivered an interesting address on education last night to a large audience.