BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2688, 28 September 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company, keuter’s agency.) Bluff, Sept. 28. The Alhambra left the railway pier at Sandridge at 4 p.m. on the 22nd inst., and arrived here at 6 a.ra. to-day. She sails to-night for Dunedin. During the passage S.E, winds prevailed. Passeugeis for Dunedin:—Mr L. de Beer, Miss Gardner. For Lyttelton : Messrs Allan and Propstring. For Wellington : Mrs Kirk, Mrs Goodbir, Miss Leslie. For Nelson : Messrs Eide, Clark, Wall, M'Beath. Thirteen in steerage, and 290 tons of cargo for all ports. Sept 22. The Intercolonial Postal Conference is bolding its sitting with closed doors. New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Queensland are represented. Mr Duffy, in reply to a question, put to him in the Assembly in reference to the Postal services, said he had received a very remarkable offer from the New . Zealand Government to the effect not only to make Melbourne the terminus of Webb’s line but to carry the Victorian mails free of cost for four months. The guns of the Cerberus have been tested with shot with great success. There has been considerable skirmishing in the Assembly over the Railway Construction Bill. There were warm verbal exchanges on the' assisted immigration vote of LI 7,000, which was much opposed, but was eventually carried by a narrow majority. Commercial. New Zealand oats were auctioned at 3s and wheat at 4s 3d. Tookey’s sell at L 33 to L 33 10s. Sydney. Mr jHall has decided to withdraw his Californian Service, pending the decision of the Inter-colonial Postal Conference, The Gulgong gold escort brought down 4000ozs. of gold. Adelaide. A Bill to do away with the precedency of Ministers on public occasions has been introduced into Parliament. The contractors for the construction of the overland telegraph have commenced an action for L 20,000 damages against the Government for stopping the contract. A new Electoral Act has been introduced. There have been fine mins throughout the Colony.