TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
{From the Colonist.) Wellington, Thursday, 7.10 p.m. The American war steamer Kearsage arrived from Sydney, yesterday. She sails for Gallao to-morrow. Sydney dates are to the Ist September. A public banquet to the officers of the Kearsage was a great succesa. News received at Sydney state that the natives of Erromango bad murdered a mate and sailor of a South Sea trading vessel. An offer has been made by the South Australian Government to construct a telegraph from Adelaide to Java, via the Gulfs of Spencer and St Vincent, King George's Sound, Perth (Western Australia), and the North-West Cape, for a subsidy of £7600 for 15 years. Sydney.— The corn market is excited ; ss. 6d. was offered and refused for wheat. Country Uour, £12. Melbourne — Wheat, 6s. 7d. Flour, £14 to £15 ; maiket firm. H.M.S. Rosario sailed for Tauranga with supplies for H.M.S. Virago. Mr. George C. Best is gazetted as harbor-master for the ports of Sbortland and Hastings. A Deputy Stamp Commissioner's Ofiice is about to be established in Sbortland. Dunedin, Thursday. A public meeting was held to-day, when ifc was resolved to form a company with a capital of £60,000, for constructing a railway from Dunedin to Port Chalmers. Good accounts from the Cromwell Quartz Reef.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 213, 10 September 1869, Page 2
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