AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 223, 20 September 1871, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Bluff, Sept. 20. The Gothenburg left Hobson's Bay at 3.40 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived here at six o'clock this morning. She sails for Dunedin to-night. Passengers : Bey. F. Rosby, Mrs. Bosby, 1 Miss Showorth, Mrs. Catamore and infant, Mr. and Mrs. Wade, Mr. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, three children and two servants, Mr. Booth, Mrs. Woodward, Mr., Mrs. and Mis 3 Browning, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Short, Sir William Stawell, Mr. Berghoff, Mr. Graves. MELBOURNE. . Sept. 14. — A. collision has occurred on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay railway; several persons were injured, but none seriously. Maurice Deveraux alias Sleghman, lately from New Zealand, has been arrested on a charge of uttering spurious cheques. The prospectus of the Waio Kardka QuartzMining Company is issued. Supples sentence has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The inter- colonial Postal Conference sits tomorrow. Eepresentatives have arrived ftoin Adelaide, Sydney, and Tasmania. The Post-office Amendment Act has passed, the only change being the reduction of the postage on newspapers to a half-penny. More witnesses in the Tichborne case are turning up. An enquiry is proceeding into the charges against the manager of the National Bank. There is to be a Ministerial trip down the Bay in the Nelson and -Cerberus, on the 22nd. SYDNEY. Much annoyance is felt at the long detention of the Nevada's mails at Auckland. Mr. Vogel's announcement that Mr. Webb intended to visit Australia in the next steamer of his line is not believed, as the Californian papers report his departure for New York. The report presented at the annual meeting of the shipowners Association is satisfactory. ADELAIDE. Wheat and flour dull. The market has a strong downward tendency ; some parcels have been sold for export at 4s. 9d.