AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 369, 19 April 1866, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald.) MELBOURNE.

March 24. Little business done to-day. Chilian and Californian advices have unsettled breadstuff's. No change, however, is noted in flour, stocks in hands of dealers being small. Trade sales of Adelaide country, £l9; offers of 5s less have been refused. Sales of wheat at 7s 6d. Maize improving ; sales at 5s 4d to 6s 6d. Sales of common red wine, £2l to £24. Mr George remains in custody, and sleeps in a damp cell; he is already suffering in health. Mr Higinbotham, as a personal friend of the prisoner, inspected tbe cell, and requested the Speaker to assign him a better bed-room. Mr Murphy refused to do so. It is supposed that Mr Fellows will advise the Legislative Council not to stand out longer on their privileges. Beany's case creates great excitement. Arrived.—Albion, from Otago; Chepica, from Mauritius. March 26, It is rumored to-day that the Governor will not send for Mr M’Culloch. The rain has made Mr George’s sleeping cell damp and pestiferous. A notice was served yesterday on the Sergcant-at-Anns that Mr George only entered the cell on compulsion, and that the Sergeant was held responsible for any consequences to his health. Force was not attempted. Mr George remained all night in the Sergeant’s room. To-day, a similar notice was served on the Speaker. Several doctors have reported that the cell cannot bo tenanted without imminent danger to health. The Chepica, from Port Louis, brings Mauritius papers to the 23rd ultimo, which report nothing later than the news per Robert Passenger. Tbo John Masterman sailed for Sydney on the 17th, and the Formosa, for Melbourne, about the 19th ultimo. An angling match in salt water took place on Saturday for bream. The day was so unfavourable that scarcely any fish were taken. A chess tournament began to-day, with about forty players. The mail steamer sailed at 2T5, All places of business will be closed for the holidays, from Wednesday night till the following Tuesday morning. The Volunteer Encampment at Sunbury commences on Thursday. Business is brisk to-day, but no animation in breadstuffs. A demand for oats at extreme figures; 500 bags Tasmanian at 5s 6d ; large sale of Californian on private terms; maize, 5s 6d. Artillery Brewery’s new stout, £8; Taylor, Walker and Co.’s, £7 7s tkl. Arrived, —Pactolus, from New York; Aldiuga (s.), from Adelaide. 8 p.m. A torchlight procession, under the auspices of the Protection League, is going on, carrying a large illuminated scroll, on which is written, “The voice of the people is the voice of God,” the band playing “ The Marseillais.” The Executive Council, to-day, have declared that the Government will prorogue the Assembly, dissolve Parliament, and govern with tbe Executive Council, as the Constitution Act has failed, and will appeal to the Imperial authorities to amend the Act. March 27. The correspondence between Mr Fellows and the Governor was read in both Houses of Parliament, but adds nothing to what has already been telegraphed. Mr M’Cnlloch was sent for, but stated to the Assembly that his colleagues had not made up their minds as to what they would do, but he would be able to make a statement

to-morrow. The Assembly adjourned till tomorrow, after agreeing to liberate Mr George on payment of fees and without apology. The torchlight procession last night ended in a ridiculous failure j the prominent persons in it were Jones (Government whip), Hurt, Cope, Longmore, and Crews. The Panama service commences from botli ends in June. Pair business doing in the import market. At auction low prices were accepted. Rice brought £3l 15s per ton, and 11,000 bushels of Chilian wheat realised 6s 6d per bushels. Spruce deals, 9x3, ex Westward Ho, sold for 4jd to 4 11-16 d per foot. BreadstulTs aro quite unsettled; lower prices are expected at sale. Private Californian advices to the Bth January give the names of ten vessels, aggregating -1000 tons, having sailed for the colonies; and six others, aggregating 3306 tons, were chartered. Trade sales of Adc'aido country Hour realised £lB per ton; town, £l9. Hart’s cleared out of agent’s hands at £2O; maize advancing—sales in the morning brought 5s 7|d ; afternoon, 5s lOd ; holders ask ss; candles, Is l|d; linseed oil, 4s 3d ; Bass’s No. 4 (new), £B. There is a great scarcity of good cattle. March 28. Mr M'Culloch has returned to office temporarily, to give the Legislative Council an opportunity again to consider the Tariff Bill. He proposed to the Assembly to-day to pass it through all its stages to-night. The minority refused, unless the bill was separated into two—tariff and gold duty. The Speaker ruled that as the only alteration proposed was, that the date when the collection of duties commenced was not sufficient to permit the bill being reintroduced the same session. Mr M'Culloch then proposed an adjournment till to-morrow, but accepted uu amendment till Wednesday. Debate now going on. Mr George declines to pay the fees, and remains in the Assembly as prisoner. The verdict in Bruce v. Queen is expected tonight or to-morrow morning. Import market fairly active. Corns neks, 15s 9d ; white crystals sugars, £ls 10s. Chepeca’s cargo placed at £33 to £34 9s; for rations to brown, £37; for low counters, £4l 6s. Blue counter teas in demand ; medium congou halfchests and boxes, Is lod. Trade demand for geneva. The T. E. Boyd, from California, brings 430 tons breadstuffs, sold to arrive. Arrived. —At Queenscliffe, T. E. Boyd, barque, from San Francisco, with breadstuffs. The Western Ocean is liberated from quarantine. March 29. The wreck which has come ashore near Wilson’s Promontory has been recognised as that of the Mandarin, which lately left Adelaide for China. The schooner Victory is reported to have foundered thirty miles from the Heads in the same squall which proved so destructive iu the begiuuing of the month. The General Sessions commence on Monday; only nine cases—all small. Verdict for plaintiff in Bruco v. the Queen, £177,000. Both Houses have adjourned till Wednesday, when prorogation and immediate assembly is expected. Mr Hugh George will then walk out without, payment of fees. It is believed that the Tariff will pass. The preamble has passed under protest. The Grain Show yesterday is said to have been very fine, both as to quantity and quality. The wines exhibited were excellent. Nothing doing in breadstuffs. Adelaide flour, trade sales, £lB to £lB 10s; for country, £l9 to | £l9 ICs. No inquiry for wheat; 7s Gd might be got for Adelaide. 150 tons rice realised at auction £2l los; afterwards, privately, 100 tons, £z2 10s. Oats selHug freely. 700 bags were sold at os 4-id. Maize, 8s to 6s 2d per bushel. Brandon candles have changed hands at 13£d. Kerosene firmer, sales at Gs 4|d per gallon. ■Queenscliffe, March 27. Arrived —Chepica, ship, from Mauritius; Aurifera, barque, from Calcutta; Ellora, steamer, from Sydney; Star of Eve, steamer, unknown. March 26. Arrived. —Yarra, from Newcastle; Pactotus, ship, from New York; City of Melbourne (s.), from Sydney. Sailed.—At 6 - 30 p.m.; Wonga Wonga (s.), for Sydney ; R.M.S. Ellora, for Galle. The Ava, from Calcutta, with 12,000 bags rice and 500 cases castor oil, is waiting here for orders. March 27. The Western Ocean, from Liverpool, lias been placed in quarantine; there are 265 passengers. There is no sickness on board at present; but two cases of smallpox, eight of fever, and twenty-four of measles occurred during tho voyage. There were five deaths, namely—S. Samuel, Henry Hughes, Emma Nichols (infant), Catherine Colville, Terso Snook, and Robert Dunning, adults. Arrived.—Ships Tasmania, Western Ocean, from Liverpool (quarantine, iu consequence of smallpox), and Formosa, barque, from Mauritius. March 29. Arrived. —Akaafiro, from Newcastle; Abbey, from Sydney.