LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 660, 12 April 1870, Page 2

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The s.s. Tararua, from Melbourne, arrived off this poit yesterday afternoon, and our files were landed before the usual telegraphio summary of the news came to hand from Hokitika. In the evening the following message arrived : — Hokitika, April 11. , , The s.s.; Tararua, Hagley, commander, arrived from Melbourne at 3 p.m. on Saturday: afternoon, after a passage of 4 days aud 22 hours. She left Sandridge Pier at 3.30 p.m. on the 4th ; cleared the Heads at 6.15 p.m. The first three days she experienced a light easterly breeze, and the latter part strong northerly winds and thick weather. : She brings 19 saloon and 65 steerage passengers, and 186 tons of cargo for all ports.

The Claud Hamilton arrived at Melbourne at 2 p.m. on the 2nd. Passenger List. — Mr H. Sewell, Mrs Sewell, Mr James, Mr Docjson, Mrs Dodson, Miss E. Dodson, Miss F. Dodson, Mr H. Dodson, Miss R, Hackett, Mr 4 Wade, Miss Usher, Mr Ulph, Mrs Ulph, Mr M 'Davis, Mr-Bridges, Mr Woodridge^f Mr Johnstone, Mr Charles Wright, Mr J. E. Knapp ; and sixty-five in the steerage. -.-.-.»..- „,. ...... Melbourne, April _4, Mr Charles Mathews has been entertained to a dinner at the Athenteum Club, and made a characteristic speech. -H3harles-Gilbertj-a^venetian-blind'maker, has swallowed a dose of green paint poison. Mr M'Gregor moved a vote of want of .^confidence motion in the Macpherson Ministry last Tuesday, which was carried by eleven of a majority. The Ministry resigned, and Mr M'Gregor is endeavoring to form a Ministry; M'Culloch promised co-operation. : The i Volunteer Easter Encampment takes place at the Little River. The cattle salesmen are shortening the •butchers' credit. William Meikle has been appointed railway overseer of the Williamstown workshops. Harris and Bird have arranged a quarter of a mile race for L2OO. The Warrfcnheip Distillery Company meditate winding up. They have lost, during the pa?t s : x months, L 5400. The Somersetshire has arrived. Judge Chapman and wife are on board. John Chatfield Tyler has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of Customs. . A carrier, named William Jewel, has been killed by a gunpowder explosion near Mansfield. Adray and five horses were destroyed. A fire was discovered in the fore hatch of the Claud Hamilton while steaming up the bay on Saturday. The pumps extinguished the. fire. The cause is supposed to be spontaneous combustion among the wool or flax. , Sailed. — Sarah and Mary, for Hokitika ; and Magnet, for Greymouth ; Our . Hope, for Wellington. Sydney, April 3. Ashdown, accountant in the Railway Department, has been arrested for embezzlement. Large arrivals of sugar have taken place. The Paterson is rising. Floodaliave taken place at Tamworth, Dubbo. The Richmond River district is flooded. Nearly all the corn growing on the left arm has been destroyed. Two thousand cattle have been destroyed at Anuganabba. Wool sales brisk. A wreck has been seen in Jarvis Bay in the shape of ; a ship's round house painted red. Messrs Hussey, Kelly, and Holly, Christy Minstrels, are insolvent. Prendergast, at Brisbane, has been hanged. Arrived— Harriet King, from Auckland. At Newcastle— Sea Gull, from Auckland; Alarm, Gazelle, and John Bunyan from Nelson ; Malcolm, from Lyttelton ; Eleanor, from Dunedin. Sailed.— Springbok for Lyttelton, Union for Dunedin, Tell for Wellington, Cantero for Auckland. Adelaide, April 3. The Governor, intends visiting the neighboring colonies shortly. :■ .- The elections are going on. favorable to the protectionist candidates. : Wheat ss. The Hunt Club is defunct. Mrs Tomlinson has committed suicide by' strychnine. The Government offer a subsidy to a telegraph company, provided a line is erected from Port Darwin to Port Augusta.