AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 712, 26 August 1869, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

LATEST TELEGRAMS. Sydney, August 14. A heavy gale has been reported at Norfolk Island, doing damage to shipping. jj r Dennis McKinley (charged with fraudulent insolvency) is now supposed to be insane. He has been placed under itraiotjhe Colonist has arrived from New Caledonia, and the Aurora from Auckland. During the passage of the Amy Kobsart .from P° r k Mackay, the «hief mate was cashed overboard and drowned. At Rockhampton, Queensland, on the jflj inst., Mr W. Rue, auctioneer, was shot outside his office, by Mr Ranken, Commissioner of Crown Lands, who fired four ij m es, —butonlyoneshottookeffect; healso juflicted several wounds upon Rae's head by blows with the revolver. Rae rushed jjto a back office. Ranken is supposed to j, a ve been actuated by jealousy: he was at once arrested, and was remanded for eight (jaj?. Rae is progressing favorably. Jfr Marks, J.P., who, at Goulburn, recently, attempted to commit suicide by disembowelling himself, (in the Japanese fashion,) has died -fitom the effects of the wounds. The Rev.. E. S. Marsden, grandson of jhe well-known Australian missionary, has leen appointed Bishop of Bathurst. Mr Henry Parkes has recently published jn London, a book entitled " Australian Views of England, written in 1861 and 1862." Telegraphic communication is now complete to Port Macquurie, 120 miles beyond .irmidale. Lord Eertrand Gordon, third son of the tenth Marquis of Huntly, and brother of the present Marquis, died in Sydney, and jus funeral ,on the 12th inst., was i.umerously attended. John Clark, late of the Sydney " Varie ties," has been committed to take his trial /or the murder of Ids wife.

Melbourne, August 13. The Chief Secretary has agreed to allow ■{be pardoned Fenians, from Western Australia, to land to receive the money sub scribed for them, but they must immediately re-ship. The Advocate, a sort of Victorian imitation of the Freeman's Journal, abuses the Ministry, the Age, and the Argus, because the law was not suspended fur their special benefit.

Captain Page, of the barque Valkyricm, lias been fined £io for delaying the delivery of a mail bag. At a sale of sugars by auction, 7,000 tags were disposed of at easier prices. The Geelong Gras Company's dividend js 10 per cent.

Messrs Dalmahoy & Co. report best beef at33s per 100 lbs; 52 to 56 lb wethers are worth 10s 6d to 12s.

Messrs Power, Rutherford, & Co. report that 1050 head of cattle sold today at prices fully equal to those of last week, with an advance for best quality; 24 000 sheep were'offered, and a decline of about h per head submitted to ; wethers are jelling at from 10s to 12s. The Land Pill is/eported, and the third reading will probably take place in a week; the Progress Supply Pill passed through all its stages. Initiatory steps have been taken to appropriate eut of the Land Fund £200,000 annually for the construction of railways. The investigations of the Land Commit to have elicited some rather strong evidence against two members of the As-

sembly, Messrs Stutt and Miller. The Assembly passed the Insolvency Bill through committee. Captain Colgin, of the American ship Herrington, died to-day.