LATER AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 540, 10 August 1869, Page 2

LATER AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH NEWS.

The s.s. Tararua brought Australian news to the 27th instant, and a few English items, received by way of San Francisco:— Melbourne, July 27. The new comedian, Frank Drew, 13 drawing very good houses. Ritson's execution is fixed to take place on the 3rd August. Elliott Brown, landlord of the Golden Fleece, Talbot, has been suffocated by an escape of gas. Bruno, a clerk in the Commercial Bank of Victoria, has been acquitted on a charge of robbing the bank at Egerton. Kinnealy, a liberated Fenian from Western Australia, has received notice to leave Victoria. Sir Richard Dry still continues seriously indisposed. Commercial. —The recent arrivals from California have depressed the market for breadstuffs. Flour is nominal at £l3 10s. Wheat 63. In sugars white crystals are in demand at from £4O to £4l ; other sorts have advanced slightly. Brandon's candles IOJd. Kerosene, Is Thirteen hundred bags of New Zealand oats were quitted at 4s 3M. Maize is dull at 4s 2d. Hennessy's brandy is quoted at from 2Gs to 275." Adelaide, July 27. The weather has been unusually cold. Ice was formed an inch thick. The races come off in October ; there have been no handicaps. Commercial. The markets are filighOy firmer. Wheat is quoted at 4s B|d. Sxdset, July 27. The Commercial Bank has declared a dividend of IGJ per cent. The Gilbert diggings are nearly deserted. An association has been formed for the purpose of abolishing capital punishment. The Government intend to abolish the ad valorem duties. Thomas M'Arthur, of the Waterview Dry Docks, is dead. The steamer Blackbird is quarantined at Newcastle, in consequence of small-pox being discovered. Galber, a jeweller, of Batnursfc, shot a woman, and then committed suicide. The Annie Main has arrived from San Francisco, and brings news to the 25th of May. Seheppter, a German banker, of New York, has failed. His liabilities are ten millions of dollars.

The Pacific Railway is running satisfactorily. It is reported that a Spanish war vessel had fired into and rank a British brig off Cuba. A telegram from London, hearing date the 23rd May, has been received. It states that O'Sullivaa has been re-elected Mayor of Cork. Prince Augustus is a candidate for the Spanish Throne.

The Cuban revolution still continues.

The Royal Canadian Bank, Toronto, has stopped payment.