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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1295, 23 September 1872, Page 2

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[PER NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Bluff, Sept. 21. The s.s. Rangitoto has arrived. She left Melbourne on Monday, 16th inst. Melbourne, Sept. 16. Business is satisfactory. The s.s. Northumberland, from London, : arrived on the 16th, after a splendid run of 51 days. The Council rejected the amended Land Bill. The Education Bill lately introduced into the Assembly provides for a free, secular, compulsoiy system. The second reading take 3 place on Tuesday week. A Public Loan Bill has passed a committee of the Assembly. The rush to Charter Towers continues, and the Darwin reefs also command attention. The Adelaide, Sydney, Victorian, and Tasmanian Governments join in subsidising a steamer for the conveyance of messages from Java to Port Darwin during the interruption of the cable. Tenders are called for a steamer. Dr Murray will be either prosecuted in Melbourne or Sydney for the Carl brig murdew in the South Seas. A conference of newspaper proprietors advocated a Government subsidy for cable messages, the reduction of newspaper postage, and other matters. The late John Moffatt died worth L 300,09 6; probate duty amounted to An Indo- Australian stud farm and horses depot has been formed. Hobbs, surgeon at Richmond, has committed suicide. Three houses were destroyed by fire at Carlton. • '; Arrived. — 12th, Northern Light, from Hokitika ; Tower Hill, from Auckland ; 15th, Florence, from Lytteltonj via Sydney, Commercial.— Large sales have taken place of new season's teas, and considerable sales of Otard's brandy, .:' up to L 20,000. Good feeding oats, 3s to 3s 6d ; wheat, 6s to 6s 9d. A fair amount of business doing. Late Mauritius news to Augast 6 states that 30,000 bags of the new crop have arrived ?u town ; greys in demand for France; no demand for Australia. Sydney, Sept. 16. The Government has placed on ihe market a L 400 ,000 debenture loan at 5 percent. .- v It is the intention to create a Mining Department and Minister. TheschoonerElizabeth has been wrecked near the Royalty Island. A Conference of the Anglican Bishops will be held on October 8. The Admiralty Court ha 3 given a verdict for LI6OO and costs against the Nevada in re the barque A. H. Badger. A meeting of the A. S..S. N. Company, to cor- sider the advisability of tendering for the Californian mail service, was adjourned for ten days. There has been some excitement at Newcastle, as the steamer Saxonia, while under a lien, was. surreptitiously towed away. A half interest in Listower opal mine was sold for LSOOO. The Randwick races : Derby — Loup Garou. Metropolitan— Dagworth, in 3min 35isec. Randwick Plate— Bang of the Ring. Adelaide, Sept. 16. The prospects of the Darwin diggings are encouraging. Three thousand yards were pegged out, and a number of claims taken up. No payable alluvial ground has been discovered. The Government is sending out two ex- ' ploration parties, one to the eastward, and the other west. Several new copper companies have been floated. . The Carnaqueen, from Newcastle, coal laden, went ashore on the Tiparra reef. The cargo and vessel are insured. Wheat, dull.