AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 18, 27 October 1871, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

The following are additional telegrams. The principal items which we received by telegraph were published in our issue of yesterday. SYDNEY. Friday, October 13. The charge against the Rabbi Davis has been dismissed, and an intention has been expressed of instituting a prosecution for peijury against his late accusers. The Rowing Club intends sending a crew to the inter-colonial match at Hobart Town. The last quarter’s revenue shows an increase of £52,000. Gray, tried on a charge of shooting Longfield, near Goulburn, has been acquitted. The Sydney Omnibus company gave their inaugural diliner yesterday. Anthony Trollope has left on a visit to Gulgong diggings. MELBOURNE. October 13. At the athletic sports, on the Melbourne cricket ground, there was a large attendance. In the ten mile race, Bedford received a mile start, and beat Neary by 200 yards. The markets closed quiet. Maize is firm at 3s. lOd.; sugars continue active ; teas are very dull. The quarter’s revenue shows an increase of £160,000 Customs duties, and £40,000 on land. Earl Belmore, who has been visiting the principal places in town, leaves for Tasmania to-morrow, but the Countess Belmore remains here. The Norfolk has been quarantined in consequence of a case of small-pox having occurred on board. The verdict in the case of Ann Marriott, supposed to have been murdered on Sandridge beach, was “ found drowned, but no evidence to show how.” In the Assembly, the reply of the Government to Lord Kimberley’s despatch was read ; it is an enlargement of the decision of the Conference on the subject. —Darwent’s interest in the steamers ‘ Coorong ’ and ‘ Aldinga ’ was sold to-day for £7,500. Messrs. McMecken and Blackwood .are the purchasers. —Flour sold at auction at £l2 10s; kerosene is steady at Is currants, sfd; rock salt, £6 10s. ADELAIDE. . October 7. At the meeting of the Assembly Mr. Glyde, Mr. Hu glies, and others, j spoke in the strongest language of the action of the Victorian Government in publishing the report of the Conference yesterday. The report of what has been done in the Conference gives satisfaction, though the result is but small. October 11. Mr. Field, a miller of Auburn, has assigned his estate. ALBURY. Wednesday, October 11. A public meeting is to be held next week, on the Border Customs question. The general belief is that Sir James Martin ought to have accepted the Victorian proposal for a temporary and conditional renewal of the treaty. HILL END. October 11. Paxton and Holman finished crushing to-day, at Vickery’s machine, 200 tons of quartz, which yielded one cake of 1,9690z5.; it is not all retorted. Some good specimens were obtained to-day from Golden Gully. A new. reef has been discovered at Louisa, eighteen miles from here, and it is said to be extraordinarily rich. The specimens shown, here, from there, are very good.