New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 1, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 652, 1 November 1851, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 1, 1851.

The William Alfred arrived yesterday evening from Sydney, and from some of t be latest papers received we gather the folio*' ing intelligence. English news had been re ceived at Sydney to the beginning of July* A very destructive fire had occurred ne» r

Rondon bridge, by which a range of warebuses, six stories in height, and three hunjred feet in length, belonging to Aiderman flumphery, had been destroyed. The warehouses had been erected in 1839, at a cost of nearly £IOO,OOO, and were only insured to the extent of £40,000. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the spontaneous combustion of some rags warehoused in the building by Mr. Hollingsworth, the paper manufacturer. The total loss was estimated at £150,000. v A robbery had been attempted at the London and Westminster Bank, but owing ■to the vigilance of the detective Police the thieves were taken within two hundred yards of the Bank with the property in their possession. One of the thieves was a returned convict. Among the persons recently deceased are the Earl of Derby and Vice Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm. From Australia the latest accounts from the gold districts appear to be more encouraging than ever, the districts in the neighbourhood of Bathurst continued to yield an abundant supply of the precious metal, while in the Province of Victoria, in the neighbourhood of Melbourne and Geelong, fresh districts had been discovered of which the most extravagant descriptions were given, and in which it was said that gold was found n the greatest abundance. Gold had also been discovered to the north at Thane’s Creek, in the neighbourhood of the Darling Downs, thus showing that the districts confining gold extended over a tract of country everal hundred miles in length. The Sydney Herald of October 16 says the escort from die gold fields to arrive that morning would aring three boxes containing four thousand Bounces of gold, and that about six hundred jounces would be sent by the mail. h The first Legislative Council of New South gWales under the new constitution had met gat Sydney on the 14th October, when Dr. (Nicholson, the Speaker of the former Council was unanimously elected Speaker. The (Governor opened the business of the session | (with an address on the 16th.