Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 860, 7 November 1870, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

From Greville & Ox's Telegram Company. (Reuter's Agents.) WELLINGTON. Monday, Nov. 7. Mr Epmeades, brewer, has called a meeting of his creditors for to-day. His liabilities are understood to be eleven thousand pounds. • BLUFF. Saturday, Nov. 5, The s.s. Tararua, Capt. Hagley, from Melbourne, arrived here at 7 o'clock this e\ erring, after a passage of 5 days and 1 hour. She left Sanclridge Pier at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31. On the 3rd, she was hove to for eleven hours during a very heavy southerly gale f The sea ran high during the latter part of the passage, with strong winds and thick dirty weather. Passenger Lkt;— (Saloon) Mr H. Gawler, Mr, Mrs, and Master Turner, Mr Pyne, Mi Buidett, Miss Maiy Mason, Mrs James Jeifrya, Mr Thomas Fergus, Mrs Noill, 3 children, and 2 servants, Mr aud Miss Dunning, Mr Dixon, Mr Daly, Mr Saunders, Mr W. S. Nwill, Mr Mitchell, Miss Rogers, Mr Davies, Miss Johnson, Mrs Colonel Matson, Miss Matson; and 32 in the steerage. Cargo ! -310 tons for all ports, MELBOURNE, Monday, Oct. 31. Parliament was opened on Thursday, Oct. 27. The Council opened with an address in reply. The Assembly will consider the speech to-morrow. Ensign Forsyth, of New Zealand, made some very fair shooting at the Rifle Association's matches. The jury being unable to agree on Supple's case, were discharged without a verdict. The weather continues very unsettled. Exceedingly heavy floods occurred all over the Colony on Saturday, causing the loss of several lives and immense damage to property. Breadstuffs are firmer again, owing to the wet weather. Wheat, 5s 6d to 5 S Bd—very little offering; oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d. No New Zealand produce in the market. Whale oil has been sold at auction at £3B 10s per tun. In the sugar market prices are well sustained : a cargo was sold this morning at full rates. The Alhambra has not arrived yet, SYDNEY, Sunday, Oct. 30. The Budget debate is still unfinished. The wool sales are dull. Prices remain unchanged. Bank of New South Wales shares have been offering at a considerable decline. It is reported that all Germans have been ordered to leave Ne* Caledonia. The mail steamer Avoca cut down the steamer Waimea, outward bound. The latter *ank in five minutes. The crew and passengers were saved. The Governor's Salary Reduction Bill has been read a second, time in the Assembly. Business dull, and quotations unalteved.„

Arrived at Newcastle;—Golden Age, Ann, Flabworth, and Jeneadia, from Dunedin, ADELAIDE. Sunday, Oct. 30. Heavy rains have fallen throughout the Colony. Mr Gawler, Land Titles Commissioner, has left for Melbourne, en route to New Zealand, where he is to initiate the Real Property Act. Several parcels of wheat has been sold at 5s Bd. The Assembly has voted £IOOO as a bonus for the first hundred tons of flax grown and manufactured in the Colony,