AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 589, 25 June 1868, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

[SYL'SEY MOUXIXG IUULU.n.] Meiuoubke, June 1. Mrs Williams, the new actress, made a creditable appearance. Captain Usliur of the Government steamer tender Bendigo, died suddenly yesterday. There has been some speculation in flour and wheat, —1700 tons of flour sold at £2l, and 19.000 bushels of vvamt at So 6d to Ss 9d ; cats, 3s 7-d to 3s 10. Some inquiry has been made for tea, and sales have been effected at Is 7d to 2s; caudles have been sold largely for export. June 2. Mr M'Culloch’s amendment on the address is quite a manifesto ; the debate continues. A discharged check-taker, Williams, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for an assault on Mr Harwood, the actor- Williams has appealed. A disgraceful outrage took place in Romeo-lane. Four persons were stabbed. Five hundred tons of flour sold at £2l to £2l 10s; five thousand cases kerosine, Devoe’s sold, to arrive for Sydney, at Is 7d ; good medium teas sold at Is 9d; also Sydney caudles are in good demand at lOd to 10|d. Mr Balfour, member for East Eourke, sailed iu the Wave of Life. The boilermakers, at a meeting, resolved to appeal from the juries finding damages against the master where the workmen has imperfectly mended a boiler. Parliamentary debates going on. June 3. Mr Bury, the coal explorer, has been injured by a fall from bis horse. Major General Chute has returned from New Zealand.

The pilot Board have suspended Pilot Bower for three months, for stranding the ship Natalia. It is likely that a division on the Address will take place to-night, as the leading speakers on each side have addressed the house. Flour is firm, at an advance. Messrs Dalmahoy, Campbell & Co., report a short supply of fat cattle, with firmer prices—best beef, 20s to 22s Gd per 100 lbs. Sheep,—sG lb wethers are worth Os. June 4. The debate on the address was resumed to-day, and is still on. In the action of the Colonial Bank f. Service, the C urt decided that the bank was entitled to receive Gs 9d in the pound, but not to recover on the bill also. To-morrow, the speaker will issue a writ for the election of a member for Emerald Hill, vice Verdon. Dr Fusion, who escaped from a lu natic asylum in Sydney, has been arrested, he called at the Detective Office lor a warrant for three dead men, who, lie said, were haunting him. Mr James Stark appears, on Saturday, as Richelieu. The auction sale of Boiardo’s stock realised ,£I2OO. There are buyers of flour at £2l to £2l ICs but no sellers : wheat sold up to 9s Gd; maize touched Ss 6d, but closed firmer at 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; Jacobin’s undressed rice sold at

£22 for export. The entries for the Melbourne Cup number 68 horses; for the Mew Year’s Day Fleming!on Stakes, 13 ; for the' Port Phillip Stakes, 18, including; Barb, Fireworks, Glencoe, and Fort)!* Australian ; for the next year Autumn i Ascot Stakes, 20; for the Spuing! Meeting Derby, 47; for the Oaks, 10; I and for the following year Autumn! Leger, 33, for which and the Derby' Mr Chirnside has entered live horses.! June 5. |

The amendment was carried without a division. Vincent’s will has been proved under £IOOO- His widow is sole executrix. Gunner Dooley is slowly recovering. The master bakers raise the price of bread to lOd the 41b loaf on Monday. The Hero (s.) spoke the barque Ann, near Green Cape. The Assembly presented the Address, which is merely the echo oi M‘Culloch’s resolutions. The Governor replied at length, concurring with the A fsembly that they bad the right to dictate form of supplies asked by the Crown. He considered the Dari-

ing grant should be locally decided by the concurrence of three branches of

the Legislature. The Assembly resumed, to prepare a manifesto and protest. The crisis thickens. The Assembly has resolved to meet to-morrow. Mr M‘Culloch has given notice that he will ask the Government if they intend to put the Darling grant on the Estimates. Flour dull; no business doing over ,£2l. ADELAIDE, JliiiO 1. The corn market is quiet; advices per Panama Mail are anxiously looked for. June 2. la the Satirist libel case, the Judges to-day, refused to grant Allen a new trial. The copyright case of Coppin v. Solomon has terminated, and judgment is reserved. In consequence of the news by the Panama mail, the corn market is firmer ; from 200 to 300 tons of two brands flour ebauged hands at £2O; wheat is quoted at Ss 6d without transactions. June 3. The weather is fine, but cold. Gigantic fossil remains have been found at Kooinga. The corn market is very firm ; fine samples of wheat are worth 5s ; sales of middling have been effected at 8s Gd; holders of flour ask £22, but buyers ouiy offer £2l. June 4. Letters from the far North lament the want of rain.

General business is quite stagnant. The corn market is quieter—a sale of 15.000 bushels of Port M'Donnell wheat has taken place at 3s Gd. The English mail is expected here on Monday. June 5. The quarterly revenue returns show that the receipts have been £170,360 against £160,524 for the similar quarter last year. The expenditure £182,000 against £280,000. This decrease is almost entirely on the item of public works. The Acting Governor gave his first “ At Home ” last night. The corn market is excited. 10.000 bushels of wheat sold at 9s 6d. There have been enquiries fur large parcels of flour at advanced rates for export, but holders at present ask too high prices to allow of transactions. The weather is fine and cold, and all sign of a change has passed away. Rain is much wanted.

In the estate of Philip Levi & Co., the Judges have decided that the Commissioner in Insolvency has no jurisdiction to annul a deed of assignment.

EXECUTION OF GRIFFIN FOR THE CLERMONT ESCORT MURDER. Brisbane, June 1. The Clermont escort murder which has been so long before the public lias culminated in the execution of Griffin, whose position in society as a police magistrate, independent of the atrocity of the deed, has given the tragedy a notoriety almost unparalleled in the history of the colonies. Griffin was hung at 8 o’clock this morning. The Rev. Mr Smith, Presbyterian minister, spent the night with him and attended him to the scaffold. The unfortunate man maintained coolness and perfect self-possession to the last. Alter a good breakfast, he ar- | ranged Ins toilet, observing with a i smile that it was for the last time. ,He rapidly ascended the steps to the I scaffold, and expressed a desire to !make some present to the hangman. 'On being asked if he wanted to make i any confession he replied with emjphasis, “ No.” After a while the cap

was drawn over his face, and he said, “ The Lord have mercy on me.” When the rope was passed over his head he assisted in adjusting it and passed it under bis flowing beard. On the fall of the drop there was a momentary struggle and then all was over. The body was interred in the cemetery at 9 a.m. Mr Smith conducted the funeral service. About ■ 60 persons were admitted to witness the execution, but several hundreds collected outside the gaol walls. Dur- ' ing last night the clergyman twice put ■ a direct question to Griffin whether he : was guilty, and lie replied “ No.” pro- ; testing his innocence, but bis manner ■ dining the time be was in gaol con- • vinced all who communicated with

Lim that be committed the murders. On the scaffold he repeated the Lord’s prayer after Mr Smith in a clear firm voice. Rockampton, June 2. Griffin confessed to Grant, a warder of the gaol, that he committed the murder. The missing valise with the banknotes were found near Mrs Ottley’s on information given by Griffin to the I turnkey. Griffin said 3,730 notes wore la the valise, which leaves only sixteen unaccounted fur; the notes arc not yet counted. Griffin made an oral statement to the turnkey ; the supposed object was to induce the turnkey to aid his escape and share his plunder. He said Power awoke while he was rifling the notes, and fired a revolver, the shot passing through Griffin’s beard; Griffin then shot Power through the head. Cahill, who had beeu ill, aud sleeping against a tree, woke with the report, and aimed a revolver at Griffin who immediately shot him in the stomach. Cahill, falling forward, shot himself with his own revolver through the head. He said the doctor ought to have found the hall in Cahill’s stomach.