LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 570, 21 October 1869, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE VICTOEIAN ELECTIONS. THE EELEASED FENIAN PIIISONEES. LATEST NATIVE NEWS. SURRENDER OE TE HEU HEU. TE KOOTI WOUNDED. {BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OFR OWST CORRESPONDENTS.) Bluff Harbor, Tuesday. The steamer Claude Hamilton arrived at daylight. She brings Melbourne news to the 12th inst. Elour, £ls 10s to £l6. Wheat, 7s 6d. Oats in demand at 5s 4Ad. Trade is dull. The news received from New Zealand regarding the rise in breadstuff's has materially raised prices. The s.s. Tararua arrived at Melbourne on the 11th inst. The mail steamer Malta sailed on the 12th. The elections are concluded. The Ministers elected are E. Cohen,M'Pherson, Longmore, J. T. Smith, M'Donnell, and M'Kean. The drought has broken up. Wellington, Tuesday. The Natives are quiet. Our forces are at present following up Te Kooti. (from the nelson papers.) Wellington, October 15. We have had nearly four days heavy rain with strong winds. The s.s. Wellington left the Heads at one o'clock this afternoon, having been detained two days by weather unprecedented by any seen since she has been on the Coast. The New Zealand Steam Navigation Company's report is issued. It shows a nominal profit for the half-year ot £022, but £673 profit was made on the sale of coals and commission on the Melbourne agency. Over £30,000 is standing to the debit of profit and loss depreciation accounts. A windup is again proposed. Mr Lawson, late of the Panama Company, has received a Treasury appointment. Napier, October 13. A despatch received from Colonel M'Donnell, dated 9th October, reports the surrender of Te Heu Heu, with his uncle and a few followers. Te Heu Heu gives the following information : That Te Kooti stopped in the pah till just before it was taken, when, as he was putting his hand into his waistcoatpocket for caps he was struck by a bullet which wounded his thumb a*nd second finger, and cutting the third finger completely off, and also passing through the fleshy part of the side; and that, if we had followed them up in the creek instead of the track, he would have been caught, as he had no eun, and was going slowly owing to the pain oi his hand. Te Kooti has with him forty or fifty Chatham Island people, and fifty Uriweras, including most of the Uriwera chiefs. This is the total of Te Kooti's force now. The Chatham Island men suffered severely in the late fight. (From the W. C. Times.) Wellington, Oct. 18. The Court of Appeal met to-day, but the proceedings were unimportant. The G-overnment have received 2000 Snider rifles per Electra, and 500 more are coming per Melita. The Gazette notifies the extinguishment of the native title over the Manawata block, estimated at 220,000 acres. News has been received from Taranaki. The natives are putting in their crops, which is considered a good sign. Mr M'Lean's visit has done good, and the natives have much more confidence in the Europeans than they had six months ago. The Pioneer Steel works commence operations in ten days. Flax machines will shortly be working at Opanaki. Mr Parris and other gentlemen have gone to arrange -with the natives for a supply of flax.

The Waitara Works turn out over three tons of fibre weekly. Gold is reported to have been found in Patea, the prospects being specks of gold in black sand. Melbourne. The released Fenian prisoners, on leaving Sydney, gave three cheers for Ireland and three groans for England. At Melbourne, all excepting Kenneally were permitted to land for fortyeight hours, but they refused to take advantage of the permission unless Kenneally was allowed to land also. The South Australian arrived in Adelaide from London in 75 days. The Great Victoria made the passage to Melbourne in 78 days. The Tasmanian Government offer a bonus of £2OOO for the establishment of the first two sugar beet mills. The flying squadron will visit Tasmania and then Sydney. Sir J. Ferguson, Governor of South Australia, advocates the creation of a trade in colonial produce in the Indian market, and has proposed to send a sample cargo of sheep, flour, wines, and jams.