SYDNEY

West Coast Times, Issue 334, 18 October 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)

SYDNEY

Monday, Oct., rB. Merssrs J. and E. Row, a Tiolesale chemists, have called a meeting of iheir creditors.

The mission ship John Williams returned from the South Seas to-day, for repairs. She was three days on a coral reef, and knocked off her falso keel, sustaining other damage.

The news of the reduction of the Bank of England rate of discount has caused a better feeling in money matters, but trade continues dull.

Arrived : Day Spring, and Dart, from the South Seas.

Sailed : Lucy, for Adelaide ; Eliza, for Melbourne. The Canaan, for Hongkong, takes 2900 ounces gol d and 200 Chinese passengers.

Messrs Bradley, Newton, and Lamb offered by auction to-day, at their r,ooms, George street, the cargo of Mauritius sugars ex Elizabeth, consisting of 5042 bags, and sucpeeded»in selling over 3000 bags at, for fine Avhite crystals, L4O; yellow crystals, L 37*; counters,, L3l ss. to L 37 ; rations, L 24 15s. to L 27 per ton net cash. Wednesday, October 10.

Wilkinson Brothers have assigned their estate. Debts, L 85,000 ; assets, L 106,000.

Messrs J. and E. Roay's estate has been assigned. Liabilities, L 35 500 ; assets, L 32,000 ; contingent liabilities, L 9795:

Mr Jay, warehouseman, Ins stopped payment; debts, secured, L 1776 ; unsecured, L 8166 ; assets, L 4753.

The Education Bill debate has been resumed in the Assembly.

Sergeant Morris, of the mounted police, has accidentally shot a man named Morris, near Madinelong.

Last night the police arrested a butcher named Henry Scot, for the Sussex street murder. A portion of the murdered woman's clothes were found in the prisoner's box, and some articles of dress had been pawned by him. There is a strong chain of evidence against him. There was a private hearing of the case to-day, and it was adjourned for a week. The prisoner is reported to have a wife in Melbourne, - but he lived with the murdered woman.

A rush to Hokitika has set in. Trade is unaltered. Maize is steady at 4s.

Arrived. — Hydra, from Balvadeux, she brings a thousand barrels of flour ; Meteor, from Chili, with 400 tons of breadstuffs ; and City of Adelaide, from Melbourne.