Telegraphic Despatches

Southland Times, Issue 951, 15 May 1868, Page 3

Telegraphic Despatches

Wellington, Thursday. — Bifle match between 11 Otago and 14 Hutt and Taita Volunteers — result, Otago, 579, Hutt 622. The Otago men had therefore to pay for the dinner which followed. Crowds of diggers are sailing from Bockhainpton for the Cape of Good Hope Goldfields. 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 Governor has perused last despatches via Panama. Hokitika, Eriday Bth. — News from Victoria to 2nd May. Tararua sails to day. Melbotjbite.-— Kaikoura reached Sydney last Monday. Compton, late clerk Australian Insurance Co., now inNew Zealand, has been charged with embezzlement. Parliament met on Tuesday and adjourned for a week without discussion. The adjournment was opposed in the Council. Eawkner made a violent speech in which he called Higginbotham a madman. Pew members of the Upper House will vote 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 meetings. 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 Plag was first hoisted in the bay on board the Helene, on Wednesday. Mr Schafer has been accidently drowned in the Yarrow. Late Ebden's Will proved at £135,000. Sydney CupBarb, 1; Stumpy, 2; Tim Whiffier, 3. The Bey Pather Moore, of Oollingwood, has been thrown from his horse and seriously injured. The Alfred Memorial Pund is progressing slowly. It is rumored that Mr E. 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 I firm of Bright and Co. Major Samuel j Wensley Blackhall, who is Gazetted Governor of Queensland, has not yet arrived. The Eockhampton diggings are falling off. Major Butler burst a blood vessel 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 MrW. H. Drummond, P.M., with success. Plour, £21 10s. Import markets dull. Eandwick Eaces — Alleged Stakes : Fireworks, 1. Prince of Wales Stakes : Travelston, 1. City Handicap: Pitchfork, 1 ; Lady Kingston, 2. . Consolation Stakes: Glencoe, 1. South Australian Eailway Eeturns 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. Chbistchtjbch, Eriday. — Elour, £19 ; wheat, 6s 6d to 6s 9d — hardly so firm ; oats, ls 8d to 2s— no demand ; barley, 3s 6d to 4s. Mr Beeves haa retired from the representation of the Avon district, in the Assembly. Eollesion will succeed l him. Wellington Satubday. — Mr Stafford has not returned. He missed his passage at Nelson, after detaining the steamer 24 hours on purpose. — The Otago Volunteer Eifle representatives left Wellington early this morning, and will arrive in Dunedin about two o'clock on Monday.