AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 128, 21 July 1870, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, July 7. The Inter-colonial Conference held its lust meeting on Tuesday. The report of the proceedings will be published in all the colonies next Tuesday. The opinion generally expressed is that no practical results regarding the Customs Union were arrived at. Sentence of death was recorded against M'Neill, butcher, Brunswick, who was convicted on a charge of rape, but it has been commuted to ten years' imprisonment with hard labour. Preliminary arrangements have been, commenced with the view of diverting 40 miles of the Goulburn river to facilitate mining pursuits. The Government vie\v the proposition unfavourably. An hotel-keeper named Musicka, landlord of the Old Post Office Hotel, fired with a revolver at a man named James Davis, who was standing in the bar. The bullet was extracted. Musicka is in custody. The 100 mile race between Colonel and Barmede was won by the former in 10 hours and a halt". Barmede was thoroughly beaten after going 80 miles. The Varieties Concert Hall and several shops adjoining, were burned down on Tuesday morning. 26 horses were burned to death in Garton's stables. The estimated loss is £25,000. Mr. J. M. Grant has resigned his seat for Avoca. The Government propose to place £7000 on the Supplementary Estimates for his family. Messrs. John M'Gee and Co. have called a meeting of their creditors. Their liabilities are £-18,000, and their assets are estimated at £45,000. Business is stagnant. Flour unchanged. Wheat firm ; Victorian, 4s lid to 5s Id. 3000 bushels New Zealand wheat under hammer brought 4s 6d ; oats, ex Ceres, fetched 3s s£d per bushel ; sugars, flat ; cornsacks, 10s 10|d ; woolpaeks, 3s 6d ; fine congous in demand; maize, 4s 6d; wool sales brisk ; 112 bales were sold yesterday at full rates.

Sydney. Mr. Charles Mathews is attracting immense audiences. The Bussian war steamer Bazarra sailed for Fiji on the 6th. Ex-Judge Carey is dead. H.M.S. Blanche has sailed for the Auckland Islands, with the view of making a thorough search for shipwrecked persons, as directed by the Admiralty.

No man ever prospered in the world without the co-operation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavours or rewards his labours with an endearing smile, with what confidence will he resort to his merchandise or his farm, fly over the land, sail upon seas, meet difficulty and encounter danger, if he knows that he is not spending, his strength in vain, but that his labour will be rewarded by the sweets of home ! Solicitude and disappointment enter the history of every man's life, and he is but half provided for his voyage who finds but an associate for happy hours, while for his months of darkness and distress no sympathising partner is prepared. Some time ago a man was charged in the Glasgow Police Court, with stealing a herring barrel from a person in Stockwellstreet. After the charge had been proved, the accuser thus addressed the magistrate : — " Deed, Sir Bailie, the man at the bar is a great rogue ; the stealing o' the barrel is naething to some o' his tricks. He stole mysign-brod last week, and what does your honour think he did wit ? 11l tell ye. He brought it into my am shop, wi' my am name on't and offered to sell met as he thought it would be o' mair use to me than onybody else." A fellow who had been paying Ms devours at the shrine of Bacchus, and like Falstaff had foresworn thin potations, stood at the corner of the street, endeavouring to sustain himself, by the assistance of a post. It was rather a difficult piece of business, for he was first upon one side of it, then upon the other. In this emergency, a boon companion on the- opposite side of the street, called to him to cross. " Come across ! " replied the fellow, with a hiccup, missing his hold on the post, and tumbling at length. " you must be a smart man to suppose I can come across, when I am too drunk to stay where I am." An Irishman having accidentally broken i a pane of glass in a window of a house, ! was making the best of his way to get out 1 of sight, but, unfortunately for Pat, the proprietor stole a march on him, and having seized him by the collar, exclaimed, " ¥ou broke my window, fellow ! did you ! not ?" "To be sure I did." said Pat ; " and didn't you see me running home for money to pay it ?" " Come, Sambo' get up, my boy; it's after sunrise." "What ob dat, massa 1 ? " Spose if sun yise two hours fore day, poor Sambo, must. git up, cos sun yise, eh? Don't come dat game ober dis nigger, no how." The Mormons, it is reported, are secretly arming for the purpose of resisting the enforcement of the national laws against polygamy. Solloway^s Ointment and Pills. — Wonderful cures of sciatica, stiff joints paralyzation of limbs, and other crippling diseases of the bones, sinews, and muscles, have been accomplished by a brisk and regular use of Holloway's Ointment. It is the only lazative which produces any impression on these fearful complaints. Pills also do wonders. Why should any human being suffer from these maladies, when, the means of imme.diate relief are to be found in every city and town in. ifee* universe.