LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 193, 22 May 1872, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

AIUU VAL OF THE S. S . HERO. NEW MINISTRY FORMED. CALIFORNIAN MAIL ARRANGEMENTS CREATE DISSATISFACTION. EXECUTION OF FEENEY. OVERLAND TELEGRAPH. MINING ITEMS. MARKETS. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, May 15. Mr Forster has relinquished his attempt to form a Ministry, and Mr Parkes has been sent for.

The Admiralty purpose adding three gun-vessels to the Australian Squadron, in order to suppress the labour trade. The import markets open to-day with less inquiry than there was during last week. Holders evince great firmness, as they know that present stocks cannot be replaced at a considerably increased cost. Sales of broadstuffs were light; Sydney mills, in bakers’ lots at £ls, and Adelaide 6orts up to £l6. Wheat quiet; a shipment of New Zealand, offered at auction by Messrs Stubbs and Co., was bought in at 6s 3d. There is more inquiry for Patna rice ; holders ask £22 10s to £23 for trade quantities. Sugars are improving, and business was done at prices showing increased firmness. The New Government.— Mr Parkes has completed the task entrusted to him by bis Excellency the Administrator of the Government. The following gentlemen are members of his Administration : —Colonial Secretary and Premier, Mr Parkes; Vice-President of the Executive Council, without office, Mr Samuel ; Colonial Treasurer, Mr Piddington ; Secretary for Public Lands, Mr Farnell ; Sec etnry for Public Works, Mr Sutherland ; Postmaster-General, Mr Lloyd ; Attorney-General, Mr Butler; SolieitorG<neral, Mr Inins. A meeting of the Executive will he held at 11 o’clock ‘this morning, when the me nbers of the new Government will be sworn in.

New York advices to March 9 state that the Serica sailed for Melbourne on Feb. 23 witli 70,100 lbs. tobacco, 14,000 cases kt-ryseue, 200 barrels resin, and sundries. The City of Glasgow, for San Francisco, takes 441 bales of wool, and the largest shipment of shale that has yet left this port. VICTORIA. Melbourne, May 11. Mr Mathew Bryant has bought Etoile-du-Soir, MabiHe, and other horses, imported by Mr Moffalt, for about two thousand guineas. Scott, for the Egerton bank robbery, has been committed for trial. The Californian mail arrangements of the Government give great dissatifaetion. Meetings are being held in various districts to uphold the policy ot the Government. Judgment has been given in the Admiralty Court in the case of the ship Whirlwind for a salvage service. Five hundred pounds have been awarded. Nothing further lias been heard of the distressed vessed off Belfast. Business is quiet; quotations unchanged. Sailed : Rangatira (s.), and Hero (s.), for Sydney.

May 13th. The squatters are anxious that the Scab Act should be kept in operation another year. The Commissioner of Customs told a deputation that, if stock-owners

would agree to pay a shilling per hundred to meet expenses, he would recommend the further operation of the bill. Meetings are being held in various parts of the colony in support of the Ministerial poliejx Importers of hardware have raised the prices. Woolpacks to arrive, 4s HHd to 4s lid. Geneva has advanced : Key, 13s 6d ; JDKZ, 14s, and likely to be higher. Quicksilver, £2 11s 3d. Bourbon sugais have been auctioned ; a portion of a cargo showed 15s advance. Flour is reported easier, but there is r.o actual change. The agency for the Hong Kong Sugar Refinery is wound up. Cornsacks, 12s 4d to 12s Gd, with prospect of a rise. Sugars are improving. Currants, 5d ; raisins, 61. Band and Albion Consols easier at 69s 6d to 70s.

The vessel reported to be in distress was the ba'que Tell, from-Adelaide to Melbourne, only hove to, and not on shore as it was thought. Arrived.—Yesterday, the Macedon. May 14. Feeney was executed this morning. He seemed quite resigned to his fate. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce is to be called to consider the Californian mail contract.

The opera season opened brilliantly last night. The Council sat only a short time today. A Parliamentary dinner takes place to-night. The debate on the Address is not likely to close before Thursday night. The Attorney-General defended the absence of an Education Bill from the Ministerial programme, on the ground that the Government were not called on to bring in such a bill, because the McCulloch Administration did so ; but the Press declares that a bill to deal with the subject is demanded by the country, ami ought to have been introduced into the Speech. George Kirk has been fined, at the instance of the Acclimatisation Society, for shooting three pheasants. Pheasants arc now getting plentiful in certain parts of the colony. . White sugars are much sought after. A common grey Java sold at ,£39 10s to £39 15s, 28s above the price expected. 195 hogsheads and quarters of Otard’s were auctioned at 5s 6£d. Teas are moving steadily. Hennessy’s ease hrandy, 26s 9.1 ; 7, 1 *OO bushels malting barley, 6s to 7s ; candles, llid ; Burke’s stout freely sold at 10s 6 I. Arrived : City of Adelaide (s.).

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. May 11. Wheat. 6s ; Flour, £l3 10s to £l4 10s ; little doing. May 13. Arrived—lnverary, with 8,000 eases kerosene. New Zealand wheat, prime, sold at 5s 10d ; bran, llfd ; flour nnchang d. One line, of Itiverary’s kerosene was sold to-day, but the price is with-held ; wheat is quiet at 6s: flour, £l3 10s to £l4 10s. May 14. The Government, to-day, received a t'degram from Mr Patterson, stating that the overland telegraph has been delayed bv unprecedented wet, but that operations will be resumed at the beginning of Anril. There is still a gap of 250 miles. When it is reduced to 150, a horse express will be established. It is expected that this will be accomplished in August. There has been great mortality amongst Horses—and acting, rheumatism, and fever among men. Two, named Edward Powell and Thomas Hawkins, died. Everything possible has been done to push the work forward. Dr Reumer has been sent to relieve those who are sick. Wheat. 6s; flour unaltered; market quiet.

Queenscliff, May 11. Sailed, at 5.30 p.m. : Rangatira (s.), and at 7 p.m., Hero (s.) for Sydney. May 13.

Arrived : Formosa, barque, from Formosa ; Azalia, schooner, from Western Australia; Martha Jane, schooner, from Sydney; Adeline Burke (barque), Bravo (schooner), Sea Nymph (barque), from Newcastle. ' Grenfell, May 11. The escort left to-day, taking from Grenfell alone, 1,8910 z. lOdwts. 13grs. gold. There is considerable activity in mining. Numbers of leases are being taken up, and preparations making for the formation of companies. Hay, May'll. About half-past 6. this morning, a fire broke out in the Billiard-room of the Caledonian Hotel ; the kitchen, bedrooms, billiard-room, and other parts of the buildings were burnt to the ground. A large quantity of furniture was destroyed. The loss is about £SOO. The goods in Warhy’s and also in Morris’s stores were hurried into the street ; some damage was done by its removal. The lire is now subdued. The townspeople assisted nobly in saving property and extinguishing the fire. Grafton, May 11. The Solferino reefs are still attracting great attention. A new reef has been opened at the Little River diggings, reported to be the richest yet discovered on the Clarence. The Clarence (s.) arrived to-night with some fifty passengers, principally diggers. The appointment of Sir King,'of Casino, as commissioner, is not approved of. The miners want a special commissioner. Goui.bi’RN, May 13. The Volunteer rifle match between GouUmm and Kiama was won by the latter by 75 poiuts,

Carcoar, May 13. The Escort takes 1,4570 z. gold, 844 of which are from the Junction, and 175 from Brown’s Creek. Hay, May 13. An inquest was held to-day on the late fire. The verdict is—that the fire was the result of accident. The damage to stock and furniture in the Caledonian Hotel is very great; the amount, however, is not yet ascertained. Mudgee, May 13. There is a rush to-day to Uooyal, two miles from Mudgee. The prospectors’ claims are good. The Commissnoner will, in a day or two, decide whether the field is to he worked on the frontage or on the block system. There are indications of a great alluvial field. Maitland. May 14. Mr O’Donohue, storekeeper, of Lochinvar, was, last night, thrown from his horse at Rutherford, and killed. Brisbane, May 14. The Legislative Council is still discussing the question of supply, and tin re is no sign of compromise or change. A deputation, consisting of leading members of the Opposition, waited on the Governor this morning with a long memorial, the purport of whcdi was to show that the Opposition were justified in the course they have taken to compel a consideration of the Redistribution of Electorates Bill before granting supply for the whole year; and that any inconvenience which may arise from a dead-lock will lie due to the unreasonable demands of Mr Palmer.