LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 617, 30 December 1869, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.] (from ovr own correspondent.) Bluff, Tuesday. The following are the detailed telegrams of Australian news brought by the s.s. Omeo : — ♦ Melbourne, Dec. 23. The branch mail steamer arrived at Glenelg ou Monday at 2 o'clock. The Omeo, v. Calder, arrived at 10.30 a.m. from Melbourne, with mails from England, making a remarkably quick passage of four days fifteen hours. She loft Hobson'sßay at 7.30 p.m. on the 23rd, experienced light winds until she cleared Banks' Straits, and steady northerly winds for the remainder of the passage. Passed the Solander at 3 a.m. this morn' ing, and arrived as above. Passengers, saloon— Mr Sutherland, for Port Chalmers ; Mr Barnveell, Mr and Mrs Strang, Mr W. H, Millett, Mr Wilkinson, Mr M'Donald, for Lyttelton ; Master G. Mullen, for Nelson ; Mr J. Symons, Mr Jack, for Hokitika. Steerage Two for Nelson ; three for Lyttelton ; fourteen for Port Chalmers ; fourteen for Auckland ; and 100 tons of cargo for Dunedin. Import markets dull. Home advices are monopolising attention. Flour moved off in small lots at Lll 10s to Ll2. Wheat, best, 5s 3d. Maize heavy. Oats in good trade demands at f. Sugars inactive. Teas steady ; fair demand. Hops wanted, stocks low. New York advices report kerosene at Id to l^d. Mail advices show an increased import trade, consisting of season's soft goods. Comsacks reached 12d. Holmes' sardines, scarce sales, at lOd. Blood's stout, 9s 6d. New Zealand flax, best samples, L 33. Davies, mining manager at Ballarat, has had his sentence reduced to one month. Arrived : Io and Black Hawk, from Greymonth. The Council and Assembly are; at variance respecting the Land BilL ' ' Higginbotham's Colonial independence resolutions have been carried. A nugget worth L3OOO sterling" has jbeen found at Berlin. J lV" Captain Norman, fdrmerly of the Victoria, war steamer, has died in^England. Walter Douglas, Evangelist, formerly of Auckland, has been summoned to the police court, Hobart Town, for inciting a breach, of the peace in church. A proposition is on foot to present Dt Halford with a testimonial for disco- j vering an antidote for snake poison. j The Victorian Woollen Cloth Company has declared a ten per cent, dividend. . A man named Ryley has murdered his mate, named Welsh, in the Ovens district. Sydney, Dec. 23. The ship Marceau is reported wrecked off Noumea, New Caledonia. , l k Sailed, from Newcastle, the Jqlib'a for Lyttelton. The Mying Squadron sail on Monday. The officers were greatly feted; 'and attended apic-nic at Qlontarf on the 22nd. Thunderbolt has resumed sticking up at Aimidale. ■ Mr Tegg has been committed for trial for murdering two Chinamen. Archbishop Polding has returned by the mail through ill health. (for continuation of news see Supplsment.)