SEVEN DAYS' LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 957, 21 August 1871, Page 2

SEVEN DAYS' LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

We mate the following "extracts from papers kindly placed at our disposal by Messrs Kennedy Brothers, agents of the brig Magnet:— . Sydney, Augusts. The R.M.S.S. Avoca on her present trip takes 60,000 sovereigns, 12,2910z of gold, and 57580z of silver. | The conversazione at the Academy of Arts last evening was largely attended, and an able inangural address was delivered. The Earl of B^lmore and the Marquis of Normanby were present. „ The South Australian Government agent has chartered the : ship. Golden Fieece to convey stores to Port Darwin. . The market for breadstnffs is quiet, and late rates are barely maintained. ! : r The weather has changed, and a steady rain has set in. Exchange on London' is 'J per cent.' premium, . : : Sales of white China sugars are reported a|L39. ; f , ' August 9. - The Queensland Government has sent ;|he Superintendent of; Telegraphs to inspect the line from Card well to the Gulf of Carpentaria. ■ There is a great flood at Tamworth, the water having risen higher than at any period during the last seven years. l The Restless, from Bangkok, brings 4284 bags of rice and 1232 bags of sugar. The notorious Captain Hayes had arrived at Bangkok 1 with the brig L<s6iibm, formerly an -American vessel called the Wi»terlily. Ho had a cargo of* rice on reight from Saigon to Hong Kong. He | had the brig thoroughly re-fitted, and then, sailed suddenly, leaving the cargo as payment. He also chartered a schooner ■ from a Mussulman by the month, and placed |lus mate in .command; with" ; in^ structiouY to join him at a rendezvous in the South Seag. . . ■ ii.-. > ■ _; > ■; '« ' ADEtvttDE, August 8. ' ... lathe Legislative Assembly, the second reading of the Land-BiH"was'tnoved,*Tina, r af(£r a short:, discuMion,-the debate wa« till Thursday. The Road Bill Ws introduced: ; it ia almost a copy of lasf ! year'b measurevii. The House ~fixW& 'tlie time ior the receipt of applications for the MMtfejwed area by northern "territory landlioldora at Ji^m^. and defused fo

$peck^ exclude the North Australian Comp|&y. .x.i. \Th# Government inspector of sheep jadtms that facilities for crossing sheep from Victoria should not be extended until the Victorian Scab Act has been longer in operation. „.'.,«. The r Qp«ernment ha«-,aoce4«*^!we wish of the proprietors of the Wallaroo 1 mine as to the extension of their lease, and has appointed a board of practical *uen <to> inspect* and -report <4m*the*l**opertyi . . . ■• ■•*>• , The jetty at the Port Augusta has been washed away by the high tide; ?> A sale of wheat at 5s sjd is reported this morning; but there is nothing further Favorable news continues to be received from the parties working on the overland telegraph line. i -ol 1 Mrs Uladstane is to play on Friday night in aid of the French relief fond, \? Sales of cornsacks at 12a. Sales of wheat at 5s s|d ; buyers o»ly offering 5s sd. ' ....•,. Hobaet Town, Aug. 8: Parliament has been dissolved by proclamation, and writs will be issued in a few days under th© new consututiop. The elections will be in three .batches. The electoral rolls show\ xa. increase, iC<f 6,02 electors ior the Council, and 2893 for the Assembly. i • ; ..,,■.- August 9. A sum of X57 has-been subscribed Co relieve the necessities of tiie shipwrecked crew of the Golden Age. Captom M'lntyre has publicly returned thanks to the citizens and to Cap am Lucas and the cre^st^e^oulhemCi»ss,iofcti»e4M»ev assistance afforded. ■ MrWylie, engineer to the coutractpra for the main line oi railway, leaves by the next San Francisco mail, tajsing with him the signed contract. His survey makes , the line twenty miles 'shorter than Mr Doyne's. ■- . - ..; ff:

A new reef is reported to hate sbejn5 bejn found on the Victoria Company's g»ff^, Trunkey, and a Bample tested shows. a yield of 7oz to the ton; A man named Andrew Greenless was killed at the Harbinger claim, Dry Greek, Wood's Point, by a fall of mrillock. The deceased was one of the oldest miners in the district. His fellow-workmen narrowly escaped a similar fate. ' '^ „ The other night, about 8 o'clock, a man was seen by a workman of the Galatea claim, at Smytheadale, in the sMceboxes. The workman called tnfee ; time3, arid receiving no answer, fired. a shot. The intruder was fonnd to be a Chinaman, who received the shot in the backhand he ;. is not expected to live. '; The first official despatch from the new Government of His Majesty the Kiufg of Fiji was received on Saturday by the Chief Secretary of South Australia. On/the envelope are the. words— w Depprtraent of '>- Foreign Relations, Fijij 16<;h June', 1371, and the signature, "John T. Sagar, r Minister Foreign Affairs.? 1 The contents (says the Register) have not at present transpired, but it may be safely .presume^ that thW' great importance fffi justify thelr ; being laid before both Housea^of Parliament. . That there i 3 gold to be obtained from theSteiglitz reefe has biei often proved by the Albion^ anfofother companies. the Al Reef in that district. Two mineral ? to whom it belongs have just had 51 tonsof quartz crushed that they took from that reef, and the result is 3300z of gold. These fortunate reefers have;: therefore, netted upwards of LSOO each for ; three months' work, and their claims looks as well as ever. ; „ . : Election matters have taken a serious turn in Queensland. The Brisbane Courier says :— ". A, good deal of excitement has' prevailed in the city respecting thfe, ; Eastern Downs election and the riot whicß took place in Warwick." Rumors of all kinds were current respecting the unfor- y ~~ tunate ocenrrence, but no" reliable In^' formation as to its origin has yet been received. That it was of a most alarming character there is' no doubfc We learn from the police anlh^rlfegs 1 that four peraonstwere woxinded'with'girosKoi;, iro | several others with stones, but none" of ■*- them seriously. Police were forwarded 1 by special: trains from Toowoomba and Ipswich, and although the town was subsequently quiet, the majority of the additional force will, remain until after 'the declaration of the poll- for the Eastern Downs." ,■■:.-■- >'.^ r.-.';V A new rnsh to an old diggings has taken place at Barfold. It has been lying in abeyance for twelve or fourteen years, but is (states the Kytuton Guardian) now I combg into favor againi-^teiijuality and amount of stone already .obtained, andf# the indications of the extent of the reef 'f j are such that the .. owners /of claims ? assert confidently that this gold field is capable of surpassing Lauristorraßogether. v Five claims are already being worked, one* or two; having been going on for some J ; time, and it is intended to mark out a" ; number of fresh odes during the eMriing, week. Half a share in one claim : was soTd ; , receutly for L 100 .: A iiew ; reef has V been discovered at Glenlyon ; it is upon '" : . the Holcorn estate (private pro.pegty), '', '.', . and snws gobd prWpects. : : Arifangemenlsi. ■ ""4 have beeu made with the iandlorcl to pay , flO per cent, on the resuits. An attempt to ensure a proper observance of Sunday was pushed to a rather extreme length recently raittie Brunswick Police Court, wheif a"*miin named George Rolfewas prosecuted* for/ travel- \±KJ ling on Sunday, 23rd nit., with a waggon i and four horses. On being questioned as to where he was going, Rolfe readily adtoitted that he was carrying corn to Wallan Wallan, to feed some ooach horses stationed there. This was looked upon as " suth a grave offence by the Brunswick police, that they at once determined upon bringing the.deUnquent before a court of ; justice. ( deja^th«j- (^ cited him to appear under a statute enacted in the reign of' Charles 11. for the reformation of sundry abuses committed on the Lord's Day, commonly called Snnday. Blr F. Stephen, who appeared fdi the'detepdant, contended that even if the act - 'bad not been repealed it was applicable 1 only to G^eat Britain, and, was not" in Victor^. jeaer^d; thei^,^^., 9 cision* but, should .they determine tftfino : *• the defendant, and lie refuse or ibeiiinaUe to pay the awouiit demanded of him ' they arejikely to; have their authority set ?!^ Wght;"^^ir"slSo*lniri^Se^ P| n |»bineßt they oouW awai^, fe default \ of distress, would be two hours in the V common -stocks; ani instromeit of cor- " rection- vthikh. ttot : bis rwdily mik * 7

larger, than that of last week. Public companies declare dividends equal a to L13,853 18s Bd. ' If a moderate calculation of tho profits derived from two private mines is made it will swell the list to what it never was before.^xThe'Frederick the Great Company must have had L2OOO in profits, and a private claim on the Garden Gully reef over L4OOO. This brings the amount of dividends declared this week not very far from L2o,ooo— in fact, were all published it would be over that. The calls are small, beiner only L 3060 26s Bd. The Daylesford Stdrcvry gives the following : — " A rascally and, we believe, a unique trick in this colony, was played here on Friday night by some speculators in Eaylesford shares. All last week thore was, in consequence -of the large yields from the Cornish and N/orlh Cornish Quartz Companies' claims, unusual excitement in the local share market. Cornish Bhares had rapidly advanced from LBO to L2OO, and North Cornish from 383 to 50s, and on' Friday between GOOoz and 700oz of amalgam had been taken since Monday from the plates of the Cornish Company. The news immediately enhanced the value of the scrip in both mines, and before evening Cornish had taken a sudden jnmp upwards to L 220, and North Cornish 4oL4: 'A large quantity of each scrip is said to be owned in Melbourne, and some in Ballarat, and the wires to each place were in constant reqnisition. They worked well up to about 8 p.m., when connexion with both places was suddenly suspended. Mr Woodward, the post and telegraph master, was in despair, for ere long nearly 30 important share messages had , accumulated iii bis office, and he could not detect any fault in his instrument. The messages, consequently, remained all nicht untransmitted, and lie passed a very uneasy time. On Saturday, morning, as lie was still unable to tret a signal from the next office, he : Bent the line repnirer towards Creswick, and when about six miles from Dayleßford the latter unravelled the mystery. The wire had been cut through the evening before by a large file. He soon united tlie several parts, and about halfpart 1 p.m. on Saturday, communication, after 17 houi^*'delay^ was re-opened. The wire to Castleroaine, however, continued useless, and the line repairer failed to detect the reason till Sunday, when he noticed that the wire had been filed throucrh, also about the same distance from Daylesford as on the Ballarat line. It is evident, therefore, that one'or ; more, probably two, rascally speculators had adopted, this means of preventing the favorable news becoming known in Melbourne and Ballarat, and of thus being able to purchase shares at. those place* "early *>n Saturday. Mr Woodward has forwarded a report of the affair to . tKe i department, and we presu the it ■will take some action in the matter. A sharp detective, by ascertaining who left DaylPßford an Friday evening, and who bought Cornish and North Cornish shares at" Ballarat and Melbourne on Saturday morning, might get a clue to the rogues. We sincerety hope they will be unearthed* and punished as severely as the law allows for so serious a misdemeanor. We may add that we do not believe that they lived at Dayjesford." . ,: , r