BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2986, 13 September 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company.)

Auckland, Sept. 13. The Novelty has arrived from Sydney, bringing late Fiji papers. H.M.S. Cossack returned to Levuka, having seized the Auckland schooner Na Noha and the schooner Tabu Soro, of Levuka, for kidnapping. Two steamers have been sent by the Government in search of the cutter Frolic, which has been engaged for several months in the labor traffic. Mr. Sagar, a member of the Fiji Parliament, died on July 30th, of dysentry. The Governor of Ilewi has been suspended for twelve months for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Hokitika, September 12. The Tararua arrived at 3 p.m. to-day from Melbourne. Melbourne. In the Assembly the Ministry have brought in a Loan Bill of one million and a half for the extension of public works and railways, water supply, and completion of the Alfred Dock at Williamstown. The Bill will probably pass next week. It is their intention to introduce an Education Bill, which will, no doubt, meet with strong opposition. There is a great exodus of miners going to the Townsville diggings in Queensland, Commercial.—Advices from California of shipments of wheat for the Colonies have demoralised the breadstuffs. The market is quiet, and flour is nominally at LIS to Lls 10s ; wheat, 6s lOd ; oats, 3s 3d to 3s od ; New Zealand oats were auctioned at 3s Id to 3s 2£d. A cargo of Mauritius sugars, ex Victorian, realised at auction L3O 6s to L4O. A hundred tons of new teas, ex E. M. Young, has been transhipped to New Zealand. A portion of the cargo sold in Melbourne fetched Js 4d to la lOd in bond. Tookeys (paid up) L 3 os; new issue, L2 2s 6d.

A stud ram, from the Tasmanian-bred flock of Mr Gibson, was sold by auction foi L 255. There was no news of the Ottawa when the Tararua left. Sydney. News from the South Seas says H.M.S. Barossa is cruising there to regulate the labor traffic. Two more seamen of the Carl have been committed for trial. Wool freights promise to open high. Several regular liners have been chartered for California. It is said the Californian news has not affected the breadstuff’s market so largely ; a was expected. Stocks are lighter than usual. The Banks have raised the rate of exchange on London to 1 per cent, premium. Newcastle. Arrived.—Eleanor; P.C.E ; Albyn’a Isle. No departure.

Adelaide. The Omeo has been chartered to bring back the telegraph construction party. Wheat is unsettled in consequence of the Californian news. Country brands, Ll3 ; town, Ll4.

Wanda nut, September 13, Mr John Ballance, editor of the Wanganui Herald, is standing for Egmont.

Wellington, September 13, The Provincial Council is to be convened early in October.

The Tauhareioabaa Bridge has been completed. It is rumored that the Hon. John Johnston has been sent for to contest the Superintendency with Mr Bunny. The Governor delivers the inaugural address of the New Zealand Institute on the 28th insfc. Mr John Martin appears at the bar of the House to-day. Greymouth, September 12. Eighty passengers left here for the Roper diggings by the Albion to-day.