BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2993, 21 September 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(prom orevillr’s telegram company, ) Cl'jde, Sept, 20. The Dunstan Spring Meeting yesterday was most successful. There was a good attendance. The Alexandra Handicap, of .15 sovs., was won by Merry Lass, McKay’s Saladin being second. The Maiden Plate, of 16sovs., was won by McPherson’s Swindle, Lady Chorister being second. In the Hack Selling Pace, Wexford won the first heat. Hack Selling Pace—Wexford, 1; Lady Chorister, 2. The Dunstan Handicap was a splendid race, and was won by Hazlett’s Brunette; Beresford’s Cresidor, 2nd. Bluff, Sept. 21. The s.s. Rangitoto arrived ?.t tl|e Bluff tfils morning, 'having left Melbourne on Monday, the Kith She brings the following passen* gors for Dunedin .'—Messrs Hoskins, Sanders, Brown, M'Lean, Robertson, Duxbury, Johnson, Flexman, Murray, Quick, J. M'Lean, Douglass, Don Fernandas, Captain Kennedy, Mrs I'Toxniau and servant, Mrs Douglas, Mrs Johnson, Miss Anderson. The Rangitoto brings 340 tons of cargo, and 39 passengers in the steerage. Nhe will sail for Dunedin at daylight to-morrow. Melbourne, Sept, 16. In the Legislative Assembly, Mr Stephens introduced an Education Bill on the principles of being secular, compulsory, and free. Common education to be impacted free, but all higher branchrs to be paid for. Every child must compulsorily attend some school tpu d;*ys in each inpnth. Penalty on >he parent for nou-oomplianceFive shillings for the first offence, and one pound for each subsequent breuch of the Act. On the acLond reading, the 24th clause will probably meet with some opposition. The Omeo left for Port Darwin, with 23q passengers ; the Blackbird for Charter’s Town, Queensland, with a similar number. Numbers are preparing to leave, as there are no provisions in the North, aud probably great privations will be suffered.

Flour, Lls to Lls 10a; wheat, Gs to 6s Dd : oats, New Zealand good milling, 3s Gd ; feeding, 3a 3d to 3s 4d ; sugars firm at last quotations. Tookeys paid Ll4, now placed at L 3. _ Sydney, IGth. In the Admiralty Court a verdict of LI GOO and costs was given against the steamer Nevada for running down the A. H. Badger, Stevedores and laborers have struck for an advance of one shilling per hour. . The Siren, from Callao, brings news of a revolution in Peru. General Gntierres was deposed, and ultimately murdered. Anew new Ministry w. s formed, with Bibieio as President. The bodies of Gntierres and his brother were burnt in the Plaza at Lima, Maize, 2s to 2s 2d. Adelaide. The cable is still interrupted. It is proposed to run a steamer from Port Darwin to Banjawanjie and Java till repaired. Several new copper companies have started, the capital being subscribed in half an hour. Flour unchanged. Wheat, long line, 5s Gd. Westpokt, Sept. 21, There are groat expectations from the Little Wonder trial. 15 tons of stone were put through the ripple boxes leading to the stampers, leaving 2S ounces of loose gold, which was retained. The aggregate yield anticipated is five ounces to the ton, which is equivalent to L 2,000 per share dividend.