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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 710, 6 August 1870, Page 4

LATEST AUSTRALIAN MEWS. . > ARRIVAL OF S.S. GOTHENBURG. [By Electric Telegraph.] (from our own correspondent.) Dunedin, August 3. Melbourne, July 26. Passenger for Lyttelton, per. Gothenburg, from Melbourne. — Miss Fairhurst. Supple is not yet sentenced.. : Smith, the Hotham wife-murderer, nas been sentenced to death ; and Draper to three years' imprisonment, cumulative on his former sentences. Daniels,- the Oriental Bank defaulter, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. . Superintendent Nicholson has been appointed head of the metropolitan and detective police. Manuka is backed for the Melbourne Cup at 100 to 7. The Melbourne Gas Company declared au eight per cent, dividend. Complaints are general against the Victorian postal rates on newspapers and letters sent via California. The authorities demand four shillings for each newspaper received by last mail. Captain Standish retires from the Committee of the Victoria Racing Club. Tenders are invited for the removal of the troops. * The Sydney aud Adelaide Mayors attended the opening of the New Town Hall. .. William Gardner, the oldest Victorian actor, and father of Mrs Phillips, died very suddenly. Commercial. — Import market qniat. Flour slightly firmer at Lll 10s to Lls ; wheat firm at 5s to 63 2d ; oats slacker at 3s 8d ; maize, 4s 7d ; kerosene, 2s 3d ; De Roubaix's candles, lOd, duty paid; cornsacks, full weight, 12d ; Tennent's \ bottled ales, 9s 6d. Sales of sugar realised 253 6d for low rations ; fine rations 27s to 293 ; good browns, 31 s 9d ; malt, 7d. Sydney, July 25. Government has equalized the rates of postage by the California and Suez routes. . Free Trader is scratched for the Metropolitan. . . ■■.:.-. = ■ The opening of the Exhibition is postponed to the 30th August. The City Bank has declared a dividend of eight per cent ; the Commercial Bank 17£ per cent ; and the Bnlli Coal Company lO^per cent. The Queensland Government has annemiced its intention of carrying out the original postage service. w The schooner Fanny is wrecked. She was insured in the Australasiau insurance office for L7OO. • Hicken, the prize fighter, has challenged Carstairs for the championship and LSOO a-side. Cornsacks, lls 6d. Honolulu sugars sold at a decline of Ll2 per ton. Packages are being sold. The Adelaide Marine Insurance Company lost last half-year L 14,000. The Yatala smelting works, leased as chemical works, have been burned. They were uninsured. A new loan of L 20.000 for the northern territory is proposed. Archbishop Russell has been appointed Vicar-General. The deficiency at the end of this year is stated at L 200,000. The Treasurer proposes issuing long dated bonds. The corn market is firm. . ' ' :• . ■ ... At Hobart Town a man named Copeland, alias Callaghan, alias Smith, from the. Thames, has been arrested for fraud. Arrived — July 25, Union, from LytteK ton. .

THE FULL AND PLENTY HOTEL ENLARGED, With INCREASED COMFORTS. • Everything studied to make the working man, the digger, 'and the mechanic, to feel at home. Good Beds, good Board, good Cookery . Come and stop for a night, and you will stop altogether. T . BAILEY, FULL AND PLENTY HOTEL Corner of Boundary and Gresson streets. To the Diggers, Mechauics, Tradespeople,. or any other Man, A Home for them at last. ' T.BAI L E V , Late of the Caledonian, Otago, and Melbourne, Has now. -rendered his Hotel a most comfortable Home for his oiil-friends, and coufidently calls their attention to his especially low list of charges for Board, &c, : — Board aud lodging . ... £1 5 0 Board, without lodging ... 12 6 Breakfast ... ... ... 0 1 6 Dinner 0 16 Tea ... ... ..016 Tripe Suppers every evening, from 8 till 11p.m., Is6d.

o\se MEO4, p~ — a ■ ■ •&s&—s£?// ■ STRIKE .AND BLACKMORE, (Late by special appointment to his Excellency Sir Geo. Grey, X.C.8.) IMPORTERS, ALE AND PORTER BREWERS, CORDIAL MANUFACTURERS AND BOTTLERS OP ENGLISH PORTER, <Ki*eymouth. H. WHITMORE, yOI)AWATEE & CORDIAL MANUPACTXTEER, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT, &c, RICHMOND QUAY.