ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ALHAMBRA.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 537, 31 July 1869, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ALHAMBRA.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS TO JULY 23. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGEAPLT.) (fbom oub own correspondKxr.) G-jEtEYHOuTH, Friday;. The s.s. Alhainbra sailed from Melbourne on the morning of the 23rd inst., and brings papers of that date. The Victorian news is unimportant. Sydney, July 19. H.M.S. Rosario was ordered to Wellington as soon as the Daphne case was disposed of. Consequently the Governor has been compelled to postpone his visit to Norfolk Island. He intends visiting Queensland after Parliament meets. A Gazette Extraordinary announces the reorganization of the Asylum, Police, and Penal Departments. Dr Wolfskehl has obtained leave to appeal to the Privy Council in a disputed will case against the relatives of the late Dr Mitchell. A clerk named Riches has been burnt to death at Camden. The barque Record, bound forDuuedin, has put in here through stress of weather. The s.s. Hero, bound for Auckland, has been detained till to-morrow evening. Heavy rains in the Western district have resulted in floods which arc likely to swell the rivers Darling and Murrav. July 20. Parliament has been summoned to meet on the 2Sth September for the despatch of business. The City . Bau'k has declared a dividend of eight per-eent., and carried £2OOO to the reserve fund. George Breillat, junior, has died from concussion of the brain, caused by fracture of the skull sustained in a fall from a lr>rse a few days ago. A shock of earthquake was felt at Iviama yesterday. It lasted [two seconds. The new diggings at Mount Wheeler have produced more nuggets. One, discovered yesterday by young Cadden, weighed thirty ounces. This is the second nugget of that weight found by the same lucky youngster. The Cinnabar Company have struck a new seam which turns out rich. July 21. The schooner Boomerang, of Hobart Town, has become a total wreck at Cape York. The crew were saved. The prisoners in Bathurst gaol attempted an outbreak yesterday, and almost succeeded in escaping. Pearson, the bushranger, whose sentence of death was respited a short time ago, is said to have been the instigator of the insubordination. The Australian General and Pacific Insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent.