AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 238, 7 October 1868, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

The following Australian telegrams are taken from the Wellington papers of Monday last. Dunedin, Oct 2, 1.15 p.m. [The Tararua brings news from Melbourne to September 27.] MELBOURNE. Mr.Foote, hue member for Geelong, is dead. The Loan Appropriation Bills have passed both Houses. It was proposed to prorogue Parliament on September 29. The Medical Society is endeavoriug to discontinue club practice. The- chess matches by telegraph are finished. Melbourne beat Adelaide. | O'Neill the Irish comedian is dead. The Hon. H. M. Murphy's estate has been sequestrated. Miller, guilty of fraudulent insolvency, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The horse Fireworks has been injured in training. Good finds of gold are reported at Dunolly and Inglewood. Interest is uow allowed by the Savings Bank on sums above £200. The Warrenheip Distillery Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The steamer Southlaud has been sold to the Newcastle Company lor £3000. Mauri! ius news slates that new sugars are coming to market very slowly. SYDNEY. Newcastle coal is quoted at 6s. 6d. The Golden Age and Rose of Australia arrived at Sydney on Sept. 21, with a Californiau cargo of breadstulTs. Califoruian advices state that the Savita had sailed for Otago with £17.000 quartercasks flour. The Eritomart sailed for Auckland, on July 23, with 650 tons wheat. Several ships were loading for the Australian colonies. The Colonial Secretai'y's office is not filled up. The Premier intends visiting England. Levien's stores at West Maitlaud are burned. A lad named Austin, at Newcastle, ran eighteen miles in an hour and fifty-five minutes. Young's tender of £52,000 for the Catholic Cathedral has been accepted. For the rifle match in November a large prize in offered. Captain Gardyne, late of the New Zealand Company's steamers, died suddenly Sept. 25. A general election is going on ; several old members are returned. The yield of the Gympie quartz reefs is falling off. California wheat sold at 6s. Id.; and maize, 3s. Sales af Bourbon sugar, £25 15s. to £3-1 2s. California flour sold at £15 7s. 6d. Queensland is experiencing a severe drought. Several runs have been abandoned; the sheep are dying; no lambing. ADELAIDE. The Ministry have resigned. Mr Hart has been sent for, and has succeeded in forming a Ministry. The 14th Eegiment goes home by the Himalaya. An assay of Jupiter Creek gold yielded 95 per cent. 200 tons of leading brands of flour sold at £14. A new meat-preserving company has been, formed. At the latest date the corn market was reported stagnant.