INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1571, 30 April 1872, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Tbe Rangitoto, which arrived at Hokitika on the 23rd inst., brings later intelligence. Melboubn"-, April 18th. "Whelan, a letter sorter in the General Post Office, has been convicted of stealing letters, and has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. A man named Scott has been arrested at Sydney on suspicion of being implicated in the Egerton bank robbery two years since. It is questionable if the young woman Christina Farfeens, who was brutally injured in her father's house at Avoca by a rejected suitor named Osterchamp, will survive. A horrible outrage, accompanied by robbery, has taken place at Footscray, the victim being a Miss Rule — a lady 70 years of age. The man is in custody. „ It is proposed to form a South Pacific Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of £200,000, and buy up M'Meckan and Blackwood's nine boats — that firm retaining an interest in the Company to the extent of £50,000. Feeny, for the murder of Marks, by shooting him in the Fitzroy Gardens, has been convicted and sentenced to death. He was perfectly unmoved throughout the trial, and heard the sentence with apparent indifference. An attempt is being made to show that Feeny was insane, but the sentence will in all probability be carried out. Flour is at £14 10s to £15 ; and wheat at 6s 7d. A lot of New Zealand oats ex Rangitoto brought 3s ; Victorian, average quality, are at 2s 6d. Sydney. The last quarter's revenue shows an increase of £30,000, chiefly in the Land and Railway Departments. A respectably dressed man slipped off the Circular Quay, and was drowned. His body has not been recovered. 130 gold mining companies have been formed during the last quarter. A valuable deposit of tin has been discovered within a few miles of Sydney. At the wool sales fleeces and scoured were a shade dearer. Sugars are firmer. Adelaide. The wheat statistics show an overplus for exportation of 20,000 tons. The present price ia 5s B*d to 5s 9d, afloat. The proposal of tbe Treasurer to meet the deficiency in the revenue by issuing exchequer bills, is generally unpopular. The Government bas promised to introduce a Permissive Bill. The new Land Bill proposes that all agricultural iand shall be sold at a price of not less than £1 per acre, payment to extend over six years, at 10 per cent, interest. A further extension of the period of payment for four years, at a further percentage, has been substituted instead of residence by an employe being allowed.