NEW SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 263, 27 April 1860, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

(From the Sydney Morning Her aid.) TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY FOR ENGLAND. From March sth, to April 16th. The Benares, with the English mails of February arrived here last night, at 12 o'clock. The Emeu is detained till this afternoon, to take answers to English letters. The Robertson Ministry have been reelected without opposition. Mr. Hargrave, the solicitor-General of the two previous Governments, has been appointed Attorney-General, but has noseat in the Cabinet. The Solicitor-Gene-ral ship is still vacant. \ ; ..:.^ . Parliament reassembled after the recess on. the 4th instant. The Government stated their intention of having a short session, passing only the Estimates and Legislative Council Bill, and after a brief recess calling Parliament together to discuss the Land Bill. Only a few of the estimates for the year have been passed. A bill to indemnify the Government for spending money without the authority of Parliament has been read a second time. Sir William Denison has declared that he will not next year issue warrants for the expenditure of public money not legally voted by Parliament, except in extreme cases.

A select committee of the Assembly has been appointed, on the motion of Dr. Lang, to consider the proposed federation of the Australian colonies.

The full salary of the Chief Justice during his absence was voted by the Assembly, but the sum was reduced in committee from to £1400, the amount of his pension. The latter vote has since been rescinded, and the sum of £2000 agreed to. The engineers and contractors for the railways are about to be examined at the bar of the Assembly touching the disputes existing between them. The losses sustained by the recent floods at Shoalhaven and Braidwood are computed at £200,000. Tne Relief Committee will have about £5000 to disburse; they are forwarding seed wheat, seed potatoes, and other supplies to many of the sufferers.

The Snowy River Gold-fields still yield good returns to those who have river claims; others are nnsuccessful. The winter being at band operations will soon be suspended, but probably a great rush will take place in the spring, and valuable discoveries then be made. Already more than 18,000 ozs., have been brought down. The other diggins are satisfactorily progressing. The arrivals from England have been the following :—Medway, Cateaux Watel, Oliver Cromwell, Queen of England, Ellwood Walter, Rangatira (s.). Falkland Kammer, Yon Flotow, Switzerland, Derigo. Phoenician. The departures have been: '—Light of the Age, with 1676 bales wool; Old Honesty, wit h 892 bales woo!; Castle: Howard,, with 2077 bales wool j Alfred, with 984 bales wool.

The Star of Peace sails to-day, with 1575 bales wool.

The Ollirer Cromwell is loading

The receipts of the gold escorts during March were 37,913 ozs. The escorts last week brought down 16,000 ozs. The largest quantity ever received in Sydney. .

The receipts at the Sydney Mint, during March were 31,171, ozs. The receipts for the first three months of this year show an increase of 75 per- cent on the quarter.

The Customs revenue for March amounted to £43,423 os. 7d.

Trade generally is satisfactory. Nearly all the wool has been brought down and shipped.

The following firms have suspended payments :—Messrs. David Jones and Co.; Messrs. Buyers and Learmonth; Messrs. F. Macnamara, Son, and Co.; Mr. E. M. Sayers; Messrs. William Fairfax and Sons, timber merchants; Messrs. J. V. Barnard and Co.; Messrs. Thompson, Symonds, and Co.; Mr. R. Harnett; and Mr. Edward Ogg, of East Maitland.

Exchange on London :—-Selling rate, one per cent, premium at sixty days' sight; buying rate, half per cent, discount.

From New Zealand we have intelligence to the 6th instant. The news is of an alarming character. A dreadful outbreak has occurred in the northern island of New Zealand, arising out of some disputes with the .natives as to land. An expedition, consisting of 265 men, military and volunteers, attacked oneoftht insurgents'entrenchments at Waitara, from which the Maories at length escaped, with the loss of about: a hundred men, including ten chiefs only two of the English being killed, and eleven wounded. Despatches were immediately sent to the Governors of the several colonies, asking for assistance. Her Majesty's ships Cordelia and Iris, being in this part were directly sent off, and a steamer was,soon after despatched with 120 men of the 12th Regiment, forty artillery men, and six sappers. Her Majesty's steamer Pelorus has been sent from Melbourne. [It will be seen by our readers that there are, some mistakes here.—The place of the battle and the number of killed. —-Ek Gohnid.\ ' .