INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 388, 20 December 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)

INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from the melbottenk argtjs.) SYDNEY. December 12. Government has moved the suspension of the Standing Orders, to permit of the Public Works and Appropriation Bills being passed in one day. This the Op • position strongly oppose, and assert that the Government wish to close the session prematurely. Messrs Chapman Brothers, ironfounders, have stopped payment. The Church Synod is unfinished. At the auction sales, loaf-sugar brought 43s sd ; eleme raisins, 4£d ; candles, lOgd. The Page, from California, ■ brings a cargo of codfish. The markets are improving. Arrived.— H.M.S. Esk, from the South Seas. A meeting of the supporters of the Government was held to-day, to discuss the proposed amendments in the Education Bill, and to determine the future course of action to be taken with regard to it. The result has not transpired. The weather is fine and warm. The Black Dog, from New Caledonia, brings ten tons of manufactured svgar — the first which has been exported from the colony. BRISBANE via SYDNEY. Dec. 12. Heavy rains for the last two days have been general over the country. Four inches fell at Brisbane.