LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 February 1869, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(From the West Coast Times.) Bluff Harbor, Feb. 2, 9 a.m. The steamship Gothenburg left Melbourne at 4 p.m., on 27th ultimo, and arrived at the Bluff at 11 last night. Had a fine passage ; wind light throughout. She brings 170 tons of cargo, thirty-eight saloon, and ninty-one steerage passengers, for all ports. The Alhambra is to leave Melbourne for Hokitika on the 3rd instant. Melbourne, Jan. 27. A deputation of squatters have waited on and urged the Chief Secretary to introduce the South Australian Scab Acts into this Colony. - The meeting of Parliament is gazetted for the 11th of February. Three new cases of typhus fever have occurred among the Tornado passengers. A. man named Lindsay has been committed for trial at Deniliquin for murdering another man named Harper, The Van Yean reservoir has been sinking materially from the drought. The Hon J. M 'Crane has accepted office as Commissioner of Public Works. The Survey party, under, M'Donald have been despatched to Gippsland to open up a road through to New South Wales. Mr G. Smith, of the Bank of Australasia, departs for Adelaide, as manager for the South Australian Banking Com pany, he is succeeded by Mr Elliott, the late manager for Ballarat. Intelligence has been received of the ship Hellespont being wrecked outside San Francisco. The captain and crew are missing. v - The City of Launceston, s.s., has been sold to Captain Lawrence for L3BO. It is rumored that Mullany, who turned Queen's evidence on the indictment of the prisoners for the Clerkenwell explosion, has arrived here Captain Turner, of the brig Derwent, reports that on leaving Wellington, on the 13th ult., he was fired into by the master of the cutter Glimpse, with swan shot. The Southern Empire arrived from London on Tuesday, with 490 passengers. The Melbourne Company has declared 8 per cent, dividend. Three additional cases of suspected small-pox have occurred at Heidelberg. A distillery plant for Dunedin is being manufactured here. The North Australian horse Pringo has been sold for LSOO. • ' The Government has granted L 35,000 to the Ballarat Waste Lands Commission. James Fowler, late of Gill, Fowler and Co., has filed his schedule. His liabilities are L 27,000 ; assets, L 20.000. Business is generally active. Flour Ll2 10s in trade parcels. New wheat is coming forward sparingly. Twelve thousand bushels Victorian wheat have sold for 5s 6d. Barley wanted. Oats, which had reached 4s 6d, have receded to 4s 3d. Quick Bales of New Zealand oats have taken place at that price. Maize has receded from 5s 6d to ss. Malt, 11s 3d. Sugars have experienced a fall of ten shillings. The sales of brandy, in bulk, are as follows : — Hennessy's 8s ; Martell's new, 7s Bd. Kerosene, Is 6d to Is lid, slow. Candles have fallen a id. Butter, in kegs, Is 10. Brisbane. Mr Macalister, the Minister of Lands, has resigned. A rich lode of galena has been found near Maryborough. , Sydney. Mr Parkes has declined to 'give evidence I before the committee respecting the Fenian conspiracy ; Two Europeans have been committed for trial for the murder of aboriginals at Brisbane. The bulk of the Estimates has passed the Assembly. The Chamber of Commerce has opposed the fortnightly mail via Suez, preferring the Torres Straits route. The Chamber also opposes ad valorem duties. Rain is plentiful. Tucker's stores at Mudgee have been burnt. An inquest has been held, and a verdict of incendiarism returned against