NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Issue 1289, 5 August 1870, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

■•■:;■ : ■ Sydney, July 21. The mayor, mayoress, and several aldermen of the city intend accepting Mr Amess's invitation to attend the ceremonies at the opening of the Melbourne Town-hall. The Government have reduced the rates of postage by the Californian route to an equality with those by the Suez line. The Northern Railway opens to Aberdeen in the beginning of August. f The overland postage to South j Australia is reduced to 2d. J July 22. The Exhibition Committee have decided to postpone the opening to the 30th August next, in consequence of the continued inclemency of the weather. The .Bey.. J. Carroll has. . been appointed Catholic chaplain to Darlinghurst gaol. 3 Fiji advices report that a settler named Harcourfc has baen murdered by the natives. . . The half-yearly report of the City Bank is very favorable. The directors have declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. At auction" to-day, Honolulu; sugars were sold at a decline of £2 per tonkin consequence of the packages being soiled. July 23. The schooner Fanny is lying at anchor at Botany Head 3, but she is in a dangerous position, and will probably go ashore. The captain and crew have left her and have reached the shore in the boats. The Queensland Government have announced their intention to . car^y out the original proposal 'to subsidise the Californian mail. Hicken, the prizefighter, has issued a challenge to Carstairs, of Victoria, to fight him for the championship of the colonies, and from £200 to £500 a-side. The fight to take place either in Victoria or New South Wales, whichever Carstairs likes. July 25. Mr Hewison, chief officer of the Walter Hood, died today from the effects of exposure on the wreck. The You Tang 3 arrived last night, having lost her foremast and maintopmast in a gale off Cape Howe. No person was injured. The schooner Fanny- was- abandoned off Botany Heads yesterday. The crew let go both anchors, and narrowly escaped in the shipV boat. The' schooner wa>.; driven from her anchors, on to North Head, Botany -Bay, and was totally ? destroyed. Nothing further has been heard 1 respecting the Dunkeld or the Harlech Castle. Breadstuffs are active, with indications of an advance. The Wallsend Coal Company have! declared a dividend of 4 per cent. I A sale of cornsacks is reported at 11s 6d. Breadstuffs are unaltered. Mr Fisher, barrister, has published an able article, showing the fallacy of the, expected law reforms from the com-; mission as it has been constituted. July 26. j The Commercial Bank has declared aj dividend and bonus of 17£ per cent per: annum, leaving £6,500 as a credit balance 1 to be carried forward. ♦ The Bulli.Coal Company have declared, a dividend of 10 per cent. \ The managers of the various steamers | plying southward have promised the! Government to examine the coast for the; missing vessels now overdue. A miser named Robinson, has been found dead near Penrith. The police found in his possession a considerable sum of money, and other property. The Woolgarlo Lead Company resume operations in the beginning of August. The G-overnment offer £100 reward for the arrest of the perpetrator of the Limestone Creek murder. The markets are dull.