AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 226, 29 June 1872, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Per G'reville & Co., Reuter’s Agents. ARRIVAL OF THE ‘KANGITOTO.’ EXECUTION OF THE SYDNEY MURDERERS. COMMERCIAL NEWS. HOKITIKA. June 28. The 4 Rangitoto’ lias arrived from Melbourne, -where she left at 4 p.m. on the 22nd instant. She brings eight saloon and thirty-one steerage passengers; also, 270 tons of cargo for various ports. MELBOURNE. The nomination for re-election of the new Ministry shows that five are opposed, and that two are unopposed. It is believed that all will be reelected. Great exposures have been brought to light in the manipulation of the Lands Acts by the permissive evasion of penalties for non-compliance with the conditions. Also the corrupt subsidy to the 4 Times,’ which has been a Ministerial journal, at the rate of seven thousand per year paid for Government advertisements. It has been detei mined to nullify the San Francisco postal arrangements entered into by Messrs Webb and Duffy. The new Government promise not to interfere with the fiscal policy at present. A man named James Stevenson, newly arrived from London in the ‘Bensedi,’ shot himself at Queenscliff. SnirriNG. —A'-rived : Rangitoto (s.), Kate Conley, from New Zealand. Sailed : Alhambra (s.), for the Bluff; 10, for Greymouth. Commercial. Tookeys, buyers at £9; sellers at £lO 10s. Flour, £l6 to £l6 10s ; wheat, 7s to 7s 4d ; oats, 3s to 3s 7d. A line of New Zealand oats, 3,000 bushels, sold for 3s. Sugars are firmly held for an advance. A great yield of three hundred and sixty ounces of gold from twelve tons of quartz has been obtained in one of the Daylesford mines. The action of Clampit versus Dr Blair, for seduction, has resulted in a non-suit. • Afflick, a levanting sharebroker from Sandhurst, was intercepted at the heads. When taken, a large sum of money was found in his possession, on board the mail steamer. Captain Moonlight, the Egerton Bank robber, and one of those who broke out of Ballarat gaol, has been retaken, with two others. An organisation, by Harwood, Coppin, Stewart and Hennings, has been formed to rebuild the Theatre Royal. It is proposed to rebuild it as an opera house Kate Vinson, nee Warde, the actress, is dead.

j The hon. Mr Casay has been appointed Minister of Agriculture. Judge Barry is seriously indisposed. Emily Burcliall, governess to Mr Qrr, at Heatlrcote, has been committed for trial on a charge of infanticide. A disgracefully rowdy scene occurred at the Sandhurst electron. SYDNEY. Nicholls and Lester have been executed for the Parramatta River murders. Both admitted their guilt, and the justice of the sentence. They . warned young men to profit by their bad example. Lester requested that news of his death shorrld be sent to his mother in England. Shipping. —The ship Annie Fish takes 343 bales of wool to San Francisco. Sailed: Mary Miller and the Colistra, for Auckland; Anne Melhuish, for Wellington. Krohman’s claim, at Tambaroora, is turning out richer than ever. The Blanche is to continue her cruise amongst the islands for a longer period than thej; originally intended. The Government will probably accede to the proposition for the abolition of tonnage dues. The disgraceful conduct of the gaol authorities >in undertaking to make a show of the bodies of Nichols and Lesier was promptly stopped. Newcastle. A serious stabbing aftray has occurred, in which three coloured seamen of the ship Swallow stabbed three white men belonging to the ship Dexter. One of the wounded is considered to be in a dangerous stale. QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, June 22. The Marine Board has acquitted Captain Young of the wilful loss of the Young Australian, having considered that it arose from an error in judgment. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, June 22. A warrant has been issued against Cox, a clerk in the Commercial Bank, for forgery. He has left the country. Six new copper mines have been started. Bills have been introduced into the Assembly to amend the Distillation and Marine Board Acts. The Trans-continental Railway Bill has been opposed in the Assembly. Commercial. —Flour, £l3 to £l4; wheat, 5s lOd to 6s.