LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 6 August 1864, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(From the Argus of 30th July. Sydney, 29fch July. The Gazette announces a further prorogation of Parliament till the 6th of September. The cargo of Chilian flour, ex Filomena, has been purchased by four millers. The price is withheld, but it is said to be below £24. It is reported that the Government intend pressing Victoria for a settlement of the question of the border duties. The prospector, Squaw, Yarra, Urani, Craigievar, and ten colliers, were windbound at Twofold Bay, on the 27th. The Joint-stock Bant hare declared a ten per cent, dividend, and increased the reserve fund to £50,000, Government hare accepted tenders for the completion of the breakwater at Eaama. Adelaide, Friday. Mr. Sutherland was not in his place when the motion of want of confidence in Ministers was called on. The House, disliking the personal charge contained therein against the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. R. J. Stow, voted that it should be expunged from the journals of the House. The public meeting in the city pst night passed reeolutions strongly condemning the principle of a squatter occupying the post of Commissioner of Crown Land 3. Another meeting is called on the same subject at Kapunda. PEB GEBTILLB AND BIBD (BETTER'S AO-ENTa). NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney. July 29. It is reported that Parliament will be still further prorogued to the end of Sebt ember, when it will meet for the despatch of business. At the annual meeting of the Australasian Steam Navigation Cempimy, a dividend of twelve per cent.: per. annum was declared. The report of the board of directors announced that th« claim for compensation made by the owners of the Bchooner Viceroy, which was cut down in a collision with the company's steamer Wonga Wonga, off Sydney, had been settled. ; Wheat is quoted at 10s. per bushel, and flour at £2,6 per ton ; but these prices are merely nominal; Maize is selling at 3s. to 3s. 9d.