LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 700, 14 July 1870, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.] (prom our own correspondent.) Melbourne, July 7. Business is stagnant. Flour unchanged. Wheat firm ; Victorian 43 lid "to 5s Id. Three thousand bushels N.Z. under the hammer brought 4s 6d ; oats, ex Ceres, fetched 3s s£d. Woolpacks, 33 6d. Fine congous in demand. Maize 3a 6d. Woolsales brisk ; 113 bales were 3old yesterday at full rates at prices reserved. Sugars flat. Corusacks, 10s 10£ d. In re Draper's case was argued at the Supreme Court last Thursday. The decision was reserved. • Sarah Spouge has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering her illegitimate child. Nixon, travelling secretary to the Western Railway League, has resigned. The citizens entertained the Conference delegates to dinner in the Criterion Hotel on July 1. ; 150 gentlemen were present, the Mayor in the chair. The speakers were reticent regarding the conference proceedings. 1 Some old colonists have laid the foundation stone of -two cottages as a hums for necessitous old colonists. The anniversary dinner took place last night. Patrick pulea, a well-known storekeeper, at Graytown, has committed suicide by drowning. Arrived — Claud Hamilton, July "2 ; Ceres, from Lyttelton ; Maid of Erin, from Hokitika. Mr M. A. M'Djiinell has resigned his teat in the Assembly through insolvency. The Lyster and Smith's opera company has commenced a second season on Monday. Melbourne Handicap. — The first prize of L3O was won by Higgins ; second, Ford. . . . - A man named Cussack, a well-known resident at Wood's Point, has baeu committed for trial for wife murder. Sailodr-rProsperity, for Hokitika, on the 4th.

The Malta had arrived in Hobson's Bay on Wednesday afternoon. ;

The Intercolonial Conference, at its last meeting on Wednesday, reported that the proceedings will be published in all the Colonies next Tuesday. A general opinion is expressed that no practical results regarding a Customs Union have been arrived at.

The death sentence recorded against O'Neill, butcher, Brunswick, convicted on a charge of rape, has been commuted to ten years' imprisonment with hard labor.

The Anti-State Aid Abolition Bill was read a second time in the Council on Tuesday. Division, 18 to 7. The Bill passed through all its stages on Wednesday. .

The members of the Yorrick Club have presented a silver inkstaud to Mr B. J. Kane, their secretary. The Van Diemen's Land Bank has declared a half-yearly dividend of 10 per cent. The Government intend proroguing Parliament next Wednesday. Preliminary arrangements have been commenced with a view of diverting four miles of the Goul burn River to facilitate gold-mining purposes. The Government view the proposition unfavorably. A hotelkeeper named Musicka, landl ird of the Old Post Office Hotel, fired a revolver at James Davis, standing in his bar. The ball was extracted. Musicka is in custody. A hundred - mile race between the Colonel and Barmede was won by the former in ten hours and a-half. Bar .nede was thoroughly beaten after going eijhty miles. The Varieties Concert Hall and several shops adjoining were burned on Tuesday morning. Twenty-six horses were burned in Garton's stables. It is estimated that the loss will be L 25,000. J. M. Grant haa resigned his seat for Avoca. • , The Government propose placing L7OOO on the Supplementary Estimates for the Hon. J. M. Grant's family. John Stubbs, carpenter, was killed yesterday. He fell 40 feet from a scaffold. John M'Gee and Co. have called a meeting of creditors. Liabilities, L 48,000 ; assets estimated at L 45,000. Sydney, July 7. The steamer Thetis arrived at Port • Stevens on the 4th, with the rescued crew of the schooner Colonist. Archbishop Polding continues to suffer from a recent carriage^ accident. Cowahv draper-,; at Newcastle, has been committed for trial on a charge of forgery. '

Hughes and Morrico have been committed for trial, charged with burning Shaw's store at Newcastle. Charles Matthews is attracting immense audiences. ; • ' Tho Bozarin, Russian war steamer, sailed for Fiji on the 6th inst. .. Queensland, July 7. Parliament opened- on Tuesday. Landeman, member for Leichardt, was unseated on a petition. The Government has offered the free use of the telegraph for the transmission of information atifocting the Intercolonial exhibition. ■ ■ - ■■ The Governor has completed his northern tour, and returned to the Hunter district. . r : . • The Western Railway to Rydal was opened on Saturday. . ;•'•• ; '.' J . Young, late of Gilchrist, Watt and Co, has accepted the general managership for the Colonies of the English, Scottish, and Australian bank. Ex-Judge Carey is dead. Hides have advanced. Tallow, is in good demand. H.M.S. Blanche has sailed for the Auckland Islands, with the view of making a thorough search, as directed by the Admiralty. H.M.S. Challenger, Commodore Lambert, sailed for Wellington on the b'th, to meet Captain Stirling with the Clio, who has been appointed to the command of the Australian Station. On handing over charge, Commodore Lambert proceeds to England.

The Duke of Edinbnrgh is expected hero in A ugust. . John Gray, a farmer at Illawarra, who murdered his wife, has been apprehended. Wool sales very brisk ; prices very firm. Adelaide, July 6. Father Smythe, Roman Catholic VicarGeneral, died on the 30th June from brain fever, and was buried on the 2nd July. A committee has been formed to erect a monument over his grave. Tho Bauk of Adelaide has declared a dividend of 3s 9d percent, per share. C. C. Price, solicitor, has mysteriously disappeared. - ;• - The Governor has Bailed for York Peninsula. The exploring party, organised by the Government, purpose examining the country eastward for the best telegraph route.