The Southland Times. MONDAY, 11th MAY, 1868. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Southland Times, Issue 949, 11 May 1868, Page 2

The Southland Times. MONDAY, 11th MAY, 1868. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

"Wellington, Thursday. — Rifle match between 11 Otago and 14 Hutt and Taita Volunteers— result, Otago, 579, Hufct 622. The Otago men tad therefore to pay for the dinner which followed. Crowds of diggers are sailing from Eockhampton for the Cape of Good Hope G-oldfields. During the hurricane at the Mauritius, one of the vessels that went ashore was the Craigalachie, of Dunedin. The Victorian crisis is at a standstill until the G-overnor has perused last desI patches via Panama. I Hokitika, Friday Bth. — News from Victoria to 2nd May. Tararua sails to day. MelbottrjSTS. — Kaikoura reached Sydney last Monday. Compton, late clerk Australian Insurance Co., now in New Zealand, has been charged with embezzlement. Parliament met on Tuesday and adjourned for a week without discussion. The adjournment was opposed in the Council. Fawkner made a violent speech in which he called Higginbotham a madman. Few members of the Upper House will Tote Darling Grant if introduced as separate measure. No ministry formed yet. Sunday traffic between Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, and Sandhurst, discontinued — fines raised. Loyal liberal association holds nightly meeting?. There is a large number of vessels now in the bay, amongst them, two sugar ships from the Mauritius ; an advance has taken place in sugars, owing to the disasters at the Mauritius. Atkinson, has been acquitted of wife murder. The North German Confederation Commercial Flag was first hoisted in the bay on board the Helene, on Wednesday. Mr Schafer has been accidently drowned in the Yarrow. Late Ebdente "Will proved at .£135,000. Sydney CupBarb, 1; Stumpy, 2; Tim Whiffler, 3. The Rev Father Moore, of Collingwood, has been thrown from his horse and seriously injured. The Alfred Memorial Fund is progressing slowly. It ia rumored that Mr R. D. Ireland is retained for the defence of the Hokitika rioters. The Governor's daughter is to be married to Mr C. E. Bright, of the firm of' Bright and Co. Major Samuel "Wensley Blackball, who is Gazetted Governor of Queensland, has not yet arrived. The Rockhampton diggings . are falling off. " Major Butler bur.st a blooJ-jessfil in his right lung. The London chartered Bank refuses to pay the civil servants on confessed judgment warrants. Shen's antidote for snake bite has been tried by MrTV. H. Drummond, P.M., with success. Flour, £21 10s. Import markets dull. Randwick Races— Alleged Stakes : Fireworks, 3 . Prince of "Wales Stakes : Travelston, 1. City Handicap : Pitchfork, 1 ; Lady Kingston, 2. Consolation Stakes : Glencoe, 1. South Australian Railway Returns for 1867 show — Receipts, £116, 310 ; expenditure, £124,632. John Grey, of Kiama, an Orangeman, at Sydney, after being previously threatened, ; was shot at, but escaped. There is a movement on foot to establish a Presbyterian College at Sydney. S.S. Egmont, from Hokitika, brought 14,900 ounces of gold. The Bank of New South "Wales : has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, per annum. New South Wales Assurance Company dividend ten per cent. A Company has bought "Wentworth Mining Estate. Chbistchttbce:, Friday. — Flour, £19 ; wheat, 6s 6d to 6s 9d — hardly so firm ; oats, Is 8d to 2s — no demand ; barley, 3s 6d to 4s. Mr Reeves has retired from the representation of the Avon district, in the Assembly. Rolleston will succeed him. .