AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 110, 17 March 1870, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, March 7. Business generally is very dull, owing to unpleasant rumoura regarding the stability of several firms. A well-known firm are said to be unable to meet their bills and cheques. The amount of their liabilities is estimated at £300,000, Negotiations are pending with the hanks to, prevent the suspension of payment by the firm, as the surplus of assets over liabilities is estimated at £100,000, Mr. J. King, grocer, Ballarat, has called a meeting of his creditors, J. C. Mark Go wan, a soldier belonging to the 14th regiment, has, been apprehended on a charge of rape, accompanied by an assault on a woman named Parsons, at the St. Kilda swamp. Victoria won the intercolonial oricket match by 260 runs. Draper's light sentence continues to cause great dissatisfaction. The Directors of the Commercial Bank propose to institute a fresh prosecution. Great stagnation prevails in mining matters. Mr- Macrae was buried on Saturday. The races between Hewitt and Harris for the championship began on Saturday, in the presence of 20,000 spectators. Harris won the first two events, and the third resulted in a dead heat. The two remaining events, come off to-day. Large sums of money have already changed hands on the results of the first two races. Lieutenant Gordon has been presented •with. a. cup by- the members of tlie Cricket Club, Mr. Fellows has tabled a motion that the question of the payment of members be decided by a. vote of the whole colony. Williams, the chief witness against Studman, arrested at Talbot on a charge of murdering Ms wife, has absconded. Louis Marren, of the Detective Police Force, has absconded. £100 reward has been offered for the apprehension of the Glenluce murderer. The Intercolonial Conference will meet in M^y next* Mr. Thomaa Taylor, preacher, Sandhurst, has been committed on the charge of embezzlement. Two seamen belonging to the lately wrecked vessel Marie Gabrielle, are supposed ta have been lost on the Cape Qtway ranges, ajid a pasty is in search of them, Mr, W, Hull has, been appointed Under Treasurer, vice Mr. Symoads, who has obtained lea^veof absence. Sydney. Messrs. Hamburger Brothers, agents in New South Wales for the Suez Canal Company, have- received intelligence that the Messageries Imperials are about to run steamem. to. Australia, Sydney being the terminus of the proposed line- j and that they will probably submit proposals to the Colonial Governments, for the carriage- of the mails, &c. Brisbane. The Government have withd rewen from the Postal Conference, with the view of opening up the Torres Straits route on their own account. Hiendeigast has been found guilty^ and sentenced to death. Adelaide Riots of the unemployed have occurred. The mob rushed the Treasury, but were dispersed byt&e tioopera, who charged them and used the flat of their* swsords. Six of the offenders were apprehended and committed for trial. Numbers more were sent to the diggings, the Government finding them- rations.. Much excitement prevails. The wheat crop is estimated at six bushels per acre, leaving 35,000 ton for export.