INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 364, 22 November 1866, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.) NEW SOUTH WALES. Bathukst, November 11. News was received here last night thnt the house of a Mrs Flynn, at Triangle Flat, seven miles from Crockley, was found burned (o ruhis, and in the debris were the charred r» mains of -Mrs Flynn, two of her children, and a servant man. The aboriginal, Spider, who was convicted of rape at tlw Assizes, is to be executed on the 26th inst. Adei.ong, November 10. The electric telegraph was opened here yesterday. Matters general!}' are very dull. Orange, November 13. Snow fell here this morning, and the air continues very cold. Grafton, November 13. At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Meymott passed the following sentences: — William Henry Geary, the notorious forger, on two charges of forging and uttering, twelve years on the roads. Christopher Morton and W. M. Tyler, accomplices of Geary, for uttering, each six years on the roads. Henry Schultz, for forging and uttering bank notes, seven years on the road*. Robert Douglass, for horse stealing, two years' hard labor in Darlinghurst gaol. VICTORIA. Melbourne, November 12. The P. and O. Company's steamer Geelong arrived at 6 p.m. yesterday, and left for Sydney at daylight' this morning. The news by the mail is not expected to influence the trade much. Captain Howes, of the schooner Lubra, who was mvi dered by the Chinese pirates, was well known in Adelaide. Sales of Adelaide town flour have been made at Ll3, and couutry Ll2. For Chilian wheat 4s 9d is asked. Maize is dull at 3s lid to 4s. Sugar is easier. Rice is much improved, sales for export have been effected at L 24. Patna at L 26 10s to L 26 15.-. Currants easier. A large business in lea has been done at Is 6d to 2s.

Considerable shipments of tobacco ami kerosene are expected from America. The Herschel was loading at New York for Adelaide. The Mayor's dinner on Saturday night was a great success. The Governor, Bishop, Judges, and Ministers were present. November 13. In the second trial of the case of Lewis v. the Union Bank, the verdict was given for plaintiff, L 10,500 damages. An appeal is expected to be made to the Supreme Court. Heavy squalls fiom south- west, with ruin, have prevailed. Lady Sutton's lawn party, for which eighteen hundred invitations were i&sued, has been postponed. Meetings continue to be held in Riverina against the Border Customs duties. There is a much better feeling in breadstuffs, but. there is no change in prices. Patna rice is in active demand. Sales of superior qualities are reported at L 27. Geneva is steady. Letters from Rotterdam say that geneva has advanced 25 per cent, and will go higher, in consequence of excessive rains. Private letters say that there are fears respecting the vintage in France, and that brandy .must rise. Sales of hops were made at Is 9d. Letters by the mail dispel any hope of the English cricketers visiting Australia this season. The strike at Malmsbury is over. The deep sea fishing cutter has brought in a new species of fish. Her trip has been successful this time. Messrs D. Campbell and Co. report prime fat cattle worth 25s per hundred pounds, and 601 b wethers, in the wool, 17s; shorn, 12s.