INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 233, 21 June 1866, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

LATEST BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HBRAIiD.

MELBOURNE.

June 12, 6 p.m The Commisisoner of Customs classes papier-macho goods as furniture. A seal measuring eleven feet in length and nine feet in girth was killed at Swan Island.

The English financial news created greal excitement here, and a later private telegram than any published says tho rate oi discount receded to 9 per cent., in consequence of the suspension of the Bank charter.

The Kedar's cargo of Californian wheat has been sold on private terms. There have been sales of Californianoatß at <h 3d. per bushel. Sugars are very firm ; sales of white crystals are reported at L 46. Currants, G^d ; muscatels wanted at 9£d. Kerosene

shows a speculative movement— ss 4sd having been refuted. Malt) 13s> Candida, Iss£d. Tobacco moving* Colonial-made geneva is coming into request { sales at 3ls per case, duty paid. Private telegrams quote rice at Calcutta at 30s dearer. One vessel had sailed, and two were loading. Four vessels were loading at New York* Messrs Dal'mahoy, Campbell, & Cd. report that the market is only moderately supplied with fet cattle> nothing really prime has been offered* any such would bring 42s 6d per 100 lbs. The firm sold Sydney carcase beef today at 365 ; fat sheep are in demand, and prices have advanced is per head. „ „ The Ruahine, from Plymouth, was 63 days on the passage. She came up the bay at daylight. Passengers— for Melbourne : Mrs P. Kirigldn, H. R. Newman, Henry Taylor, John M'Dougall, A. B. Moore, A. Campbell, Leitchschiendt, Mr and Mrs John Ballarae, Miss Edwards. For Sydney: Messrs C. Walker and C. Corbell. She had fine weather, with strong head winds^ to" St. Vincent's light ; N.E. trades .to ,the Equator, which, was crossed dn v ttie 27th April, in longitude 4*27 W. ; atad strong SJE. trades to latitude 24*27 S. After leaving the Cape, she encountered a succession of cyclones from N.W. to S.W., with high seas ; on the 28 th ultimo, in a heavy gale, she carried away main yard and staved in two life-boats, damaging the bulwarks. The Cape dates by the Ruahine are to 16th May. Gold was discovered in quartz in Transvaal, by diggers returning from Australia. The Basuto war w,as over. Moshesh has paid the fine imposed on him British Kaffaria is also annexed. The barque Prince of the Seas Was totally wrecked near Cape Recif, and eight men drowned. Chilian flour iB quoted at 2? per lOOlbs; house coal, 60s. Trade is generally reviving, and the new wddls have been much better prepared for market than Usual. The f Allure of N. Birkenruth is reported ; liabilities, L 83,00 0; assets, L 52,000. Advices by the mail steamer Madras report the arrival of the C.R.M.S. Souchays at Batavia, on the morning of the 25th April, after a passage of twenty days from Brisbane. Her mails wero sent on to England by the French mail steamer, leaving Batavia on the 29th of April, and %ould thus reach England early in June. The Souchays had been appointed to start on her return voyage immediately after the arrival of the English mails of the 10th of April v which reach Batavia on the 17th of May. The Netherlands Steam Navigation Company have also arranged to despatch one of their now steamers, the Koniug Willem, of 3000 tons, to Brisbane and Sydney.