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Evening Star, Issue 2945, 27 July 1872, Page 2

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(from greville’s telegram company.) Melbourne, July 20. The budget statement of Mr Langton shows a surplus of L 8,200. The estimates are proceeding and meet with little opposit on. No new cases of small-pox are reported. Salutary precautions are vigorously observed, and the prisoners and the members of the local defence force have been re-vaccinated. MrMTherson, in the Assembly, has proposed a tax on imported cattle and sheep from the neighboring Colonies in order to carry out the true protectionist principle. Commercial. Tookeya are offered at L 5 10s. For the new issue, holders ask 30s. Buyers offer 255. Flour.—Llo ss, to Lls 15s. Wheat is Gs sd; oats, 3s. Sugars are in demand at firm prices. A nugget weighting 558 ounces has been found at Dunnolly. Mrs Miniver Davis has been convicted of an attempt to poison her husband at Brighton and sentenced to death. The sentence will probably be commuted to imprisonment for life. Street, her paramour, was discharged. The Government propose to measure to check gambling and betting. Dr L. Ij Smith endeavored at a public meeting to exonerate bis self-connection with the Time 9 and Mines corruption, but failed to satisfy his constituents. _ Sydney. In the Assembly, the debate in reference to the California mail subsidy has been adjourned till the 26th. Sutcliffe, the small-pox patient on board the Hero at Newcastle, is dead. The case is declared to be of the most virulent type. No other cases are reported. Commercial,—Adelaide wheat, 6s to 6s 4d; New Zealand wheat, 5s 8d to 6s. At a sale of Honolulu sugars, yellow counters sold at L 32 to L 34. Two and a quarter cwt. of specimens from Krohman’s claim yielded 831 ounces. A man named Carrfrey died at the Hospital from the effects of garotting a fortnight since. Sailed.—Novelty and H.M.S. Clio, for Auckland. Newcastle. Arrived.—Rit 3, from Auckland; Cyrus and City of Newcastle, from Wellington. Sailed.—Stranger, for Wellington; Medea, for Dunedin. Adelaide. Vaccination and sanitary measures are observed. The Eangatira’s passengere were not allowed to laud, and she took them on to King George’s Sound. News received from Daly Waters state that the cable is still unworkable. Mr Todd believes it is not broken, but is faulty, and there is leakage. Faint signals came through, an 1 pending its repair messages are conveyed from Port Darwin to Java by steamer. It will probably be August before the gap is re luced to sixty miles, when messages will be sent three times a week. Commercial.—Flour, Ll2 10s to Ll4. Wheat, 5s 7d to 5s Bd. The Lily has sailed with 300 tons of flour for Mauritius. Hokitika. The Eangitoto, Captain Mackie, arrived at 3 pin from Melbourne direct. Her latest dates from Melbourne are to the 20th. Napier, July 27. 12.55 p.m. Much indignation is felt here at the non* arrival of the Judge ; in consequence of which the sitting of the Supreme Court has been adjourned repeatedly. Several witnesses, from Poverty Bay have been waiting a long time; so that the costs will be very heavy. Auckland, July 27, 12 noon. The captain of the schooner Clyde reports passing portion of a wreck off Bream Heads. Some uneasiness is felt in town for the safety of the Bulwark, now 150 days from Loudon, and 74 from the Cape.