Inter-colonial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 545, 23 January 1868, Page 4

Inter-colonial Intelligence.

i-*' ADELAIDE, f ' 27th Dec. » Barron and Hogarth, from W the Legislative Council; and Messrs Carr, Cavanougb, and Everard, from _ the Assembly; are appointed a Com- . mission to inquire into the disease in the crops. There was a tremendous storm from the Westward this morning. The Alrtroo AAnmp] fn tat if l)Qr>]r flflfl oho iduu uciruiui v iului paasojugcAo. udc sailed for Melbourne direct. * No change in the corn market. BUBNING OF THE ALFEED HALL, AT SAND- , HUES!. ( The special correspondent of the Argus states that a vast temporary hall erected for a ball to be given in it in honor of Prince Alfred was destroyed by fire as the dancers were arriving. ■ Its size was 150 feet by 60, and alI though by no means handsome exterk nally, the inner decorations were such A as to form one of the finest interiors in f the country, and certainly to compete favorably with the Alfred Hall of Ballarat, on which so much more money had been spent, MUBDEB AND SCALPING AT MAOSIA. A man has been murdered and scalped at Maoma. Great excitement has arisen in consequence, and many conflicting rumors are afloat. Three possibilities are suggested as to the author of the deed, viz.-First that the murderer was insane; second, that he was a white man and sane; third, that he was an aboriginal. 4th Jan. A leading article in this morning’s Advertiser strongly declaims against the action of the Victorian Government, in literally proclaiming their own indispensability, and actually having the impudence to go to the country on that very issue, and ask the electors to give them carte-blanche to overthrow the constitution and establish a dictatorship, insolvency and fraud. Samples of barley have been exhibited in town, grown from California seed, which produced forty bushels to the General business continues very dull. The corn markt is quiet; sales of old wheat have been made at 7s. VICTORIA. 31st Dec. Parliament was dissolved to day by proclamation. The elections commence on the 10th Jan. The Prince received an address from Echuca, at the melbourne Club. Tasmanian flour is quoted at £ls in bond, and Victorian, £l6 ss. Candles for export sold at lid to ll|d, according to brand. There was an amateur performance at the Haymarket by Hon. E. Yorke, Lord Newry, and the officers of the Galatea, the house was crowded. The Japanese troupe are drawing crowded houses at the Princess’s. Fishbrook is scratched for the Port Phillip Stakes, the Barb is the favorite at 2 to 1. A man named Fairweather has been barbarously murdered at Keilor. The suspected person has been arrested. There was a tremendous tornado this afternoon. The unfinished walls of the city hall were blown down; and the triumphal arches at the Prince’s Bridge, South Yarra, and Elizabethstreet, were also blown down; trees and veraudahs were destroyed. Rain followed. THE BELLEMV POISONING CASE, The Argus of the 22nd December says -The trial of Richard Thomas Beliemy, for the alleged murder of his wife, commenced on Wednesday last, and was concluded on Saturday when the prisoner was acquitted. The facts are tolerably well known to our readers, and are briefly these, that Beliemy was an assistant at a shop of Mr De Barr, chemist, Gouibarn, New South Wales. Mrs De Barr, who was proved to be a woman of very intemperate habits, eloped with him in August, 1866, carrying a considerable sum of money with her. The pair arrived in Melbourne in September under the name of Barnett, and passed as man and wife. They took up lodgings in n Uaiioa in L 1 nt.AAi _ m axvuov A AS ciliu iiil-Cl a time, upon the representations of certain parties who lived in the same house, they were married. On shipboard Mrs Barnett bad been attacked with severe!

vomiting which continued even after landing. She was attended by Mr Beanay, who was called in by the prisoner to see her, and she was somewhat relieved. Afterwards the same symptoms manifested themselves, antimonial nelson suspected, and Beliemy was apprehended. The evidence at the trial showed that the woman was a drunkard and had taken tartarised antimony as an emetic. The court was densely crowded during all the days of the inKiif WP.fl IlOt 221UGh

auXlciy cVluCcd tC? ti!6 VGrdlGt, aS It was felt that after the testimony given for the defence, the jury had had no alternative. Whatever suspicions may have been entertained at first, and are still held by some, the greater number of those who heard the evidence believed in the man’s innocence. After the verdict was given the prisoner who was greatly agitated, solemnly asserted his innocence, and on leaving the court fell down in a fit, but was recovered by Drs Baker and Martin. Daring his detention in jail he also had one or two fits of a similar character. BRISBANE. 4th Jan. The Governor embarked to-day in the City of Brisbane, on his way to New Zealand. Colonel O’Connell was sworn in today as Acting-Governor. Maryborough diggings continue to give good results.