LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 828, 23 March 1871, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[BY ELECTR'C TELEGRAPH.-]

[per greville's telegraph company.

reuter's agents.]

Hokitika, March 22. By the s.s. Rangitoto we have the following later telegrams of news : — Melbourne, March 16. The polling in the last batch of elections are proceeding to-day, very quiet at present, but they are expected to be very rowdy at some places before night. Tim Whiffler beat Nimblefoot easily in the Town Plate..

The installation of Dr Brownless, Messrs Archer and O'Grady as Knights of St. Gregory, was carried out at St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Sunday, by Bishop Goold. The place was crammed.

Three cargoes of sugars were offered at auction on Tuesday ; 3£oo bags were sold at fall current rate 3, and the rest were withdrawn, pending the arrival of the mail. Advices of 4000 cases of Devoe's kerosene were sold yesterday. The market is firm. A cargo of pearl shells, nx Prima Donna, were offered by auction, but vithdrawn for want of a bid. Breadstuff's are not affected by the mail news. Fifty tons of flour were sold yesterday, at Ll3 17s 6d. Adelaide wheat is being held, and little offering at Cs 2cf, nominal quotations. Oats are very quiet, and quotations unchanged. The Sydney Government received a telegram by the mail from the Secretary of State, telling them that the English Government had received information of the fitting out of a filibustering expedition, which had left America to pick up Australian gold ships. iThe information is not credited here, but the Government commenced to-day to fix the guns in position.

Victoria won the Intercolonial Cricket Match by 47 runs.

A public meeting of merchants resolved to petition the Governor* to dissolve Parliament. A great riot took place in the female reformatory at Newcastle. The women again behaved very badly. The police quelled it. A barbarous murder was committed near Orange. A man's body was found partially charred, and the feet cue off. It is not identifiable.

Sugars are firmer, and flour improving. Some heavy sales have been closed for. Thompson and Gilles estate shows a surplus— fourteen thousand pounds— and time has been granted them. At Adelaide, a large quantity of land is being taken up in consequence of the fine yield of wheat this year. Wheat is quiet, but five' shillings are freely offering for good samples. The German residents in Tasmania have made demonstrations to commemorate the end ot the war.