LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 54, 4 March 1871, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

r,Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. [Pkh Greville's Company, Reuter's Agents]. The following telegrams reached us too late for publication last night : — Bluff, 3rd March, 3 p.m. The Tararua arrived from Melbourne at half-past 7 last night, after a passage of 5 days 3 hours, having left on the 25th ult., at 8.30 p.m. Experienced beautiful calm weather. She brings 21 chief, and 32 steerage, passengers, and 500 tons of cargo ior all ports. Passengers : For Duuedin, Rev. Hungerford, Mrs. Hungerford, Miss Hull, Mrs. Greig, Mrs. Sitnson, Mrs. Lambert, Messrs. Balfour, Cameron, Simson, T. Lambert, aud Reed. For Canterbury, Miss Comptoo, Messrs Beecher, aud Johnson. For Wellington, Messrs Wright, Wilson, Coates, Windram, Ehrman, and Fiuslay. Cargo : For Dunedin, 223 tons ; for Oamaru, 27 tons ; for Timaru, ,35 tons ; for Lyttelton, 54 tons; for Wellington, i 66 tons. Melbourne, 25th February. Sullivan and Leigh, for bushranging, have been sentenced to fifteen, and twelve, years' imprisonment respectively. ; Ellen Lighe, for infanticide, is sentenced to death. The weather is changeable and showery. Andrew Lowe, once a member of the Assembly has been committed tor trial for misappropriating a bill of exchange. The Thermopylae passed Cape Ofctway this morning 57 days out from^ England. Meetings are being held in favor of protection, and also against the abolition J of Sunday trading. Breadsluffs are quieter. Adelaide wheat selling at 6s. Trade sales of flour have taken place at £14 to £14 ss. Oats are dull at 3s. Bd. to 3s. 9d. One hundred and thirty tons of Adelaide flour have been sold for transhipment to New Zealaud. Large speculative transactions in-brandies have taken place. Sugar market very firm, and also kerosine, sales of which to the trade bave been transacted at 2s. 7d. New Zealand flax is easier, and has been sold at* from £16 to £21,

Arrived ; Zephyr from Hokitika, Sailed: Aborigine for Hokitika. Sydney. ' The Assembly has negatived Mr. Samuel's amendment on the financial policy of the Government by a majority of 12. Sugar market excited. Freights to England havo advanced, gths of a penny being demanded for wool. Lorando Jones has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and a fine of £100 for blasphemy. The gold returns of last month show an increase on the corresponding period of the previous year. Wool is firm. Arrived: Novelty from Auckland. Adelaide. The Savings' Bank has tendered for the whole £9000 of Government bond?, 5 per cents, at £97 10s. Offer declined. £500 taken up at 99. Wheat is inactive at 4s. Bd. to 4s. 9d, Sales of country flour have been effected at £11 ss. The weather is cold and showery.