AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 306, 14 September 1865, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

fTrom the Sydney Herald August 17.] Tam worth, August 16. A new party of four bushrangers commenced yesterday by sticking up Corrigan’s station,. Singapore ; they stole four horses, saddles, and bridles. Thence to Adams’ station, Ginneroi, where they stole guns, ammunition, and rations. . ' The police returned lust night, but got no trace ■of Thunderbolt. ' Constables Dalton, Lynch, and Norris were presented to-day—through the Superintendent of Police—with £2O each, being the amount subscribed in this district for capturing Thompson, of Thunderbolt’s gang, in April last. Melbourne, August 16. Mercantile transactions are unimportant. 500 firkins of old Cork butter sold at 8d to 9d ; 330 tons of salt for export at rates equal to £4 per ton. The Alexandra, from Mauritius, brings a cargo of sugar, and papers to J une 27th. The sugar crop was nearly all shipped at that port. The Chamber of Commerce have, in consequence of the refusal of Joshua Brothers to forward colonial mails, decided to request the Government to compel all vessels to carry mails if required. The Kestrel, for Swan River aud Sydney, sailed'on the 22nd of June, There had been no arrivals from the colonies since the Ist. Madasgacar advices report A revolution imminent. Adelaide, August 16. No wheat offering; little enquiry. Nominal •price, 3s 6d at the port. Flour, £lB 10s to £2O.

INDIA. Bombay papers to the Bth July are to hand. We (Sydney Herald, August 26) quote from the times of India of that date. Cholera has broken out in Aden and in Lahej, and a requisition, has been made to the Bombay ■‘Government for three more Assistant-Surgeons. A famine prevails in the province of Lahej, Mocha, and Hodeida, in Arabia, and the British authorities at Aden have requested the Bombay Government to send, promptly a ship-load of wheat to'Aden to meet the requirements of the people. The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned the payment of a gratuity of a thousand rupees to every military ofiicer of less than fifteen years’service who may receive a cerfilicate of high proficiency from the College of Fore William, or the •college of other presidencies. ■' * - Theheatat Calcutta has -been intense, and in the courts two judges and several barristers have been prostrated by its effects. , The Lahore Chronicle says—ln Pangi, on the ■Upper Chenab, one hundred and eight people were hilled by an avalanche or landslip, which dammed up the river to eighty, leet deep for some time during April. Twenty fatal cases of cholera had occurred in the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Ahmednuggur. Several deaths from the same fatal disease have also taken place in Li. Battery, 18th .Brigade K.A., at jßarodo ; but by removing the troops, the cholera has abated.,. , , Great Hoods have occurred atSeriuuggur, Cashmere. The European visitors hare been obliged to take to their boats, which they have converted into arks. . , The ruler of Khokund has been killed by Kupchat Tartars, and the country made over to the i Khan of Bofihara. A correspondent at the Bhootan frontier alleges that a fresh civil war is about to break out in that.country in consequence of a disagreement between the Deb Rajah and Tcngso Penlow. The figtuing with the British has been deferred until the next cold season. Tlii' fbtal'revciiuc of Bengal for 1563-4 artVoUtifod.to £15,397,298, being an increase nf £19,763.-I •rir the previous: year, and of £1,275,230 over that of 1861-2. , ■ v. i

China and japan. Hongkong papers are to hand to the 30th June. We take the following from the Overland China Mail 6f the 13th:— The Taeping rebellion seems to be now entirely suppressed, and that much sooner than we ventured to anticipate. The chief question now before foreign nations, and especially England, is—what change will the altered state of matters’produce between, the treaty powers ? : .'We have it from high authority that there will be no attempt made, to presume upon the superior position which the Chinese authorities have been placed in by our asand -we have no reason- to doubt the statement. ; :.