TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 37, 12 February 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Per. Greville's Company, Reuter's Agents.] j AUSTRALIAN. j Hokitika, February 11. i The Coorong, Captain Clarke, arrived at 9 o'clock last night, baviDg made tbe passage in five days, three hours. Passengers : Miss Summer, Captain Bascand, Messrs. Brown, Burnett, Macondue, A. Midley, Crocker, C. J. England, Butters, Errioger, Wallace, Low, James, Nissen (2) J. S. Decarie, Revs. Bavin and Morley, 41 in the steerage, and 19 for transhipment to the Nevada. Purser, J. H. Heaton. MELBOURNE. February 6 — The Wesleyan Conference sat I fifteen fays, the Rev. Benjamin Chapman pre&i- ! dent. The request of the Wesleyan Churches of New Zealand for a separate Conference was granted. Spiritism is much canvassed. Father Bleas- : dale has denounced it as an imposition, an assumption, and blasphemy. A girl name! Payne, aged 16 years, has been committed for trial on a charge ot infanticide. Two men, Williams and Anderson, just discharged from gaol, got on the St. Kilda railway and were cut to pieces. It is supposed they were drunk at the time. Father Barry has lefc on two years' leave of absence. He was feted at Scott's prior to his departure. Agatha states Company doing good business concerts (?). ! Hindu's damaged tea (?). i Human remains and clothes, believed to be | relics of Leicbardt, have been brought from 800 miles west of Brisbane. Great exodus of health seekers Tasmania. SYDNEY. I The dissolution granted by the Governor is generally deprecated by tbe press. Freeman's Journal re Belmore titled Numskull (?) The border duties arrangement has fallen through. Lange, a draper, has been fined JGIS for an attempted evasion of the duty on ribbons. ADELAIDE. Captain Hagley, of the Tararua, was sei?ed with a fit prior to his proposed departure for the Northern territory. He is since dead. His wife arrived two hours previous to his decease. Fireash, an old colonist is dead. Wheat is firm at ss. 3d. j A caucus meeting of the Opposition has been held, with the avowed object of ousting the Government. j Bishop Shiel is reported to be still dangerously ill.