AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 22 January 1870, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Sydney, Jan. 1.

4- company has been formed for the purpose of opening up the mail route via California and the Pacific Railroad. They intend making a beginning iv March on a small scale, and have chartered two of the A.S.fr. Company's steamers, which they will run from Sydney to San Francisco, calling at Auckland, Tahiti, and. Honolulu. ' A man named. Graham, while attempting to beat his wife yesterday, tripped and fell down dead. A lad named Burgoyne has been dashed to pieces by a fall off the cliffs at Newcastle. . | The Malta takes 11,7890z. qf gold, and 40,000 sovereigns. The sugar sale to-day showed a de : cline of £1 per ton. Adelaide, Dec. 29. The corn market is hardening, owing to a general feeling that the average yield of the crops will be less than was anticipated, many competent judges being of opinion that it will not average more than five bushels to the acre. Flour is worth £10 5s to £11 10s. A parcel of half-a : ton pf quartz from the South Rbyne Reef has been crushed, and yielded a very handsome return. Two ounces of gold were taken from the ripple tables, without opening up the boxe.s. Latjnceston, Dec. 28. Ellis and Millad have been arrested for the " great Tasmanian Reef swindle," and remanded till next Monday. Brisbane, Dec. 28,. The blackfellow who committed the rape upon the little girl Henrietta Reiss at Bodamba Creek, near Franklyn Vale, about'' a week since, which has since resulted in the death of the child, was captured by Sergeant Deyine and Constable Waldron of Leyburn, after a hot pursuit of over 100 miles. The blackfello\y made a desperate effort to escape, but being at length overcome by the determined efforts of his pursuers he was taken after a brief show of resistance, a,nd, after being ironed, was conveyed to Toowoomba.