BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2829, 13 March 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from qbeville’s telegram company, bedter’s agents.) Hokitika, March 13. The Claud Hamilton, Captain Rouse, arrived here at eight o’clock this moraine. Left Melbourne on the evening of the 6tb. Passengers: Mrs Grubbin and inf mt, Mies Ellen Grubbin, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Ainsworth, Mrs Bower, Miss White, Miss Twocood, Mrs Wakefield, Messrs O’Donnell, Stevenson, Alcorn, Harris, Will, De Carle, W. Moulder, Anker, Lloyd, Beaumont, J. S. M. Thompson, Wharton, Wymond, Everett, seu.j Everett, jim. ; Bower, Church, Gordon, Wakefield, Forster, Jobson, Green, Cameron, Ins ector Socretan (?). Mr J. H. Heaton, purser. Melbourne, March G. The Hon. J. Vogel and Mr Webb had another interview with Mr Duffy, and submitted modified proposals relative to the Californian mail service. These proposals are now under consideration, and there is more probability of an arrangement being come to. Sir James M‘Calloch has resigned his seat, and is going home in the s.s. Northumberland. Mr Purv’s Young, the barrister, and Messrs Everard and Henty are candidates for Mandurang, vacated by Sir James M'Culloch. Mr Anthony Trollope is visiting Western Australia, and returns home by the next mail boat. Judge Macoboy is dead. It is believed Mr J. H. Dunne, Crown Prosecutor, will succeed him. A man named Henry Penson has been murdered at Daylesford by his relative, James Wilkie, who shot him, and then threw him down a deserted shaft 400 feet deep. The body struck amongst the timbering twelve feet down, and being seen, was got. Wilkie has been committed for trial. Mr Longmore has gone to Queensland, to see the working of the narrow gauge railway principle. The case of Clarson and wife against Dr Blair for an alleged indecent assault five years since, and scandal, has been brought to an cud after five days’ trial. The verdict was in favor of the defendant. Taylor killed Kobinson, the pugilist, in an encounter near Sandhurst on Sunday last. A man named Johnson attempted to kill bis wife, and afterwards to commit selfmurder, at Sandridge. Sydney. One Newcastle Company has reduced the pricj of coals to seven shillings. A lode cjf tin ore six feet wide has been struck at Cope’s creek. Irvine, the mining speculator from Tambaroora is missing. It is suspected he has met with foul play. Adelaide. News by the Omeo from the Roper river says, the Omeo steamed sixty miles and was towed forty miles further up the river. Mr Todd says the horse express will short’y be established.