AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 134, 1 September 1870, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika, August 26fch. The Rangitoto arrived here last evening from Melbourne, after a passage of five days. She was tendered this morning. Melbourne, August 20th. The Gothenburg arrived yesterday. Andrew Vair wasexecuted at Ararat on the 15th. At the Intercolonial Wine Exhibition, Greelong took five prizes ; Sandhurst, fine ; Castlemaine, three ; South Australia, three ; and Sydney, three. Victoria had one hundred and fifty-three entries ; Adelaide, forty-four ; and Sydney, twenty-eight. The Commissioner of Customs, in reply to a deputation from the brewers, said he would favourably consider their request for the distilling of vinegar from waste beer. Dr Motherwell writes to the Argus, stating that the rumour of Mr W. J. T. Clarke's mind being affected, is incorrect, and that Mr Clarke only suffers from bodily weakness. Thunderstorms are general throughout the colony ; the hailstones are like marbles. The lightning killed a boy at Sandhurst, and photographed on his chest a picture of a young tree near winch he stood when, he was killed. A new sheepwash has been tried successfully. It cleanses wool in two minutes without rubbing. Judge Forbes has decided that a certificated insolvent cannot sue for damages sustained prior to getting his certificate. The Agamemnon arrived from London in seventy-one days. The doctor died on the day previous to arrived, and his body was brought on shore for an inquest. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. have despatched the Oineo to Adelaide, and from thence to Port Darwin. The Alhambra proceeds to Fiji on Tuesday, being well filled. Commercial, — No change has occurred during the week. Flour, LI 2 5s to LI 2 15 ; wheat, 5s 7d to 5s 9d j j oats have been a trifle easier, bnt appear more in request at 3s 5s to 3s 7d. Sydney. The first locomotive made in the colony under a Governmeut contract, started on Saturday, The Assembly has voted a quater of a million for public works ; LI 7, 000 being for the pnrpose of improving the navigation of the Murray, Darling, and Mnrrumbidgee. A Bill to abolish capital punishment has been read* a first time, Rrisba.ve. The Carpentaria telegraph construction is temporarily suspended,

THE HUNDRED-MILE RACE BET\Vj<,i£N r BAUMAID .v. C'>L -NiCL (To the EJilur of the Tuapeka Tim:s.) ■" ik., — In your i&aue of die 18th ult. yo'i published an extinct oi a hundredmile race which occupied the r>]. ic of ten and a-half hours, giving an average of nine miles per hour. JNow, I beg leave to state that I have personal knowledge of a gentleman residing in this diitrict, leaving Coal Creek, and riding through to the Dunstan, having to wait on his up journey to arouse the puntman, and after his arrival at Clyde, having to awake several persons in order to find Dr. Thompson's residence, waiting while that gentleman dressed, repairing with him to the druggist's, again on his return to the river having to awaken the puntman, and eventually reaching Coal Creek after an absence of six hours ; the distance travelled being fully sixty miles. This, if we allow, at the very least, an hour for stoppages, &c , the speed at which my friend (who performed this journey in the cause of a suffering female) was twelve miles an hour, and this with a horae in constant work, not trained to racing. This, Mr. Editor, I think is a proof sufficiently strong that our New Zealand horses are superior to those on the other side. — I am, &c, Vindux. Coal Creek, Teviot, August 23