COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue II, 2 September 1843, Page 311

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

We have received Sydney papers to the sth of August, Port Phillip to the 21st of July, Geelong to the 17th, and Launceston to the 3d of August. The Sydney papers are principally filled with reports of the proceedings of tire Legislative Council, which opened on the Ist of August, and elected Mr. M'Leay as Speaker. The following are the names of the gentlemen who have been returned for the various districts and towns : — Messrs. W. Bland, W. Bowman, W. Bradley, J. Coghill, H. Condell, C. Cowper, W. Dumaresq, C. S. Ebden, W. Foster, J.D. Lang, W. Lawson, F. Lord, H. H. Macarthur, A. M'Leay, T. A. Murray, C. Nicholson, J. Panton, W. H. Suttor, R. Therry, A. Thompson, T. Walker, D'Arcy Wentworth, W. C. Wentworth, R. Windeyer.

The Sydney City Council have passed a resolution that the markets shall be opened on Saturdays. This measure appears to have given great offence.

The Government has revoked the appointment of Mr. Willis as resident judge at Port Phillip. That gentleman has taken his departure for England. Judge Jeffcott is appointed to the office.

A revolting murder has taken place in the heart of the town of Corio, Port Phillip, on a poor old black, by some of his countrymen. The object of the murderers was to procure the kidney fat of their victim. A soap manufactory has been established at Launceston.

The stockowners of Australia are looking forward to better times, by realizing for the fat of sheep, by the boiling process, a better price than they have of late obtained for the carcase. We extract the following from the. Launceston Advertiser: — A sheep run, and about twenty thousand sheep, were recently offered - for £5,000 at Sydney, to a gentleman who declined the purchase, considering it would have been a dear bargain. The subsequent sheep-boiling mania had such an extraordinary effect upon the gentleman' 8 mind that he offered first five, then seven, and finally ten thousand pounds for the establishment/ This the proprietor declined, and actually boiled down the twenty thousand sheep for the sake of the tallow ! The result of the speculation remains to be seen.