AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 405, 23 August 1866, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

SYDNEY. Ist August. In the Assembly last night a long debate took place about the Treasurer and the Collector of Customs. A motion for a Select Committee to make enquiry into the case was negative. The markets continue very dull. Arrived.—Rakaia, from Panama. Had heavy west and south-west gales all the way across from Wellington to Sydney. Four of the company’s colliers were lost in the recent gales, and therefore the supply of coals at Wellington was short of the requirements. The Rakaia was within 300 miles of Sydney Heads on Sunday morning. She brings five passengers from Southampton, aud fifteen from Wellington. The captain says that the Mataura is coming to Australia, via the Cape of Good Hope. The company’s steamer Kaikoura will bring the next month’s malls. The Queanheyan and Goulburn mail was bailed up by Clarke’s gang at 5 a.m. yesterday, five miles on the Goulburn side of Bungendore. They took several of the mail bags, and robbed two of the passengers. ADELAIDE. Ist August. A mob of 5000 head of cattle from the Darling, for the Adelaide market, arrived at Blanchelown to-day. The new steamer Murray has been sold to Captain Dove, of Melbourne, ior the Gipps Land trade.

Thb lutbu-CoxiONlal Exhibiiioit. —The new Exhibition building, which is in course of erection at the back of the Public Library, is progressing rapidly towards completion, and iu a very lewweeks it may be expected to be ready for the reception of the objects to be exhibited. Applications for space have been very numerous and extensive ; but hitherto New South Wales has looked coldly upon the afiair, and declined to take any part in the show. In order if possible, to overcome this coyness or perhaps jealousy on tho part of the sister colony, a deputation has been despatched.to Sydney; and it is to be hoped that the effort will attended with success.! —Melbourne Correspondent of the Otago Daily Times.