LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 281, 31 October 1867, Page 2

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

1 By the steamer Charles Edward, which arrived at Hokitika on Tuesday, we ha,n"fjo; dates from Melbourne to the 19th inst. ' &0 : The crisis still continues-, and ifl b«- || coming more and more serious, as th« Mji Legislative Council now openly "defies- the <fir country, having thrown out the Appro- |fe priation Bill. The manner in which this \s;. was done is thus described by the Leader ': %§t — The hon. the President announced the Ml receipt of a message from the Assembly, W accompanied by the Appropriation Bill. W. The bill was read a first time, on the mo- w tion of the hon. Captain Cole The hon. 1 Mr Learmonth then piesented a petition, signed by eight hundred and twenty-one , persons residing in Ballaratand its irame- V . diate neighborhood, praying the Council & to reject the, bill. The memorial was re- J [ ceived. The hon. Captain Cole moved, { and the hon. Mr, Pettitt seconded, the second reading of the. Appropriation Bill, ..-■'■i whereupon the hon. Mr. Highett moved, t and the hon, Mr Fawkner seconded; an amendment, " That the bill lie rejected." . The aniendment was carried on a division i by twenty votes to five. : • ' ■ : j Probate was, on , Thursday, the 17th, \ granted to the will of the late Mr William \ 1 Montgomerie Bell. The personal properly of the deceased amounts to L6OOO. 1 The marriage of the hon, the Chief Secretary, with Miss Inglis; only daughter of the late Wm, Inglis, Esq., of -Wallflat, Dumbartonshire,. Scotland, "tqok place, . . Thursday, the 17th, at the residence 'of Mr Robert Sellar, Tennyson street, St. ■# Kilda. The ceremony was performed by ||J the Rev. Dr Cairns, assisted by ,the Rev. || Oswald Dykes, and. witnessed by a few ft>, intimate friends. The same morning Jf several members of the leading firms inlld Melbourne met at the store of Mr M'Cul^Ja ' loch, in Queen street, to celebrate thJF/j rnatriage. • . |mji \ There is likely^ to be a serioua politijjf N crisis in Sydney. The Government vmr 4 ', defeated on the second reading of w J Land Bill, on Thursday, the I7th» J ' amendment having been carried JW J .votes to 30. When i the assembly jm CM the 18th, Mr Martin said that <M a k vernment required time to considjr fl ', course they should pursue ; jaP^j^M House accordingly adjourned tiUH **~J\ 1 day. A dissolution is not imprJß [ Davis, accused of killing a soW ' r named Smith, was tried at the^B ! Circuit Court, on the 18th,|B guilty of only mansla,ughte^l Q q v^H 1 argued that although the lojß 1 gun appeared to show. delijV \ tiring of the .shot might h^V "^-—J^^B dental; so Davis got thew f^L-^i^^B \ supposed doubt. . zm Vjf* ; Under date Sydney MM -^^H : the followingtelegrapliicne^V Virago, — Bingham, cbm|W "™-l»^^M here yesterday evening, a^ • l^^| She brings news from theßT lc ** :r »_...^^^H ' Hope to the sth SeptemberM— J^_J^^^B 1 stay of H. M.S. Galatea at M* j^^H . public balls were given an«. all kinds were got up. Aifl tertainments 3000 personsß [ including the Emperor of lm B x j^^^^l Galatea was at the Cape ojK k^^^^| company with the Viragol pected she would leave thitt _ Ma^^^^H on the 25th of ,September«^~~~~~r-^^^^H . Duke of Edinburgh had Jmß the Commodore on his^gft4 Tip-^^^^^B been accorded a magniMl - x the Cape. When the :"\mL 0 - a^^^^H the Duke was absent f^B Q"^^^^^H board H.M.S. Racoon, r t , a place some 400 miles d^H ' e^^B[^| M. Willoughby, a midstMk-^ MT^^M the Galatea, liad taken tHAI (Hp*- ( Rio, and died. 'Manj^R-. ' W%' I suffered from the , feveraKib^^K brings the news that.-thjEflF \, W&^j^^^ son, for Victoria, had^^^^H^S^^^H she was there, and^^^^ x bourne early in A.y\wSo<^^. Vv^^^^^^^l A melancholy agm' : ; ■ W'^y^^^^^^l carred on Wednem ■W^y.^-M^^^^^^^ man named GammF l |>^^* k i^^^^^^^| was carting stones^i"-^ ssr F^^^^^^^l when he fell off tiF . nn W-i- ■ '^^^^^^^^H which passed- ovejr^. r t)y^%^ '^^^^^H being instahtaneott s 91 W:' : ' A most -ttestruTyg Uxon-J^i:" ''^^^^^^| Thursday mowij^cconists: jp^v after five o'clqjl» brigade, ;: .^ Queen'a. streeyp rinteI ,dent jm* !^^^H The Insurancjf" l^^ W s< £ n S Sing one anol I have eap S edJ^ ere the traffi town of "Ml ; /■ -f\