LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 590, 7 December 1869, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE FLYING SQUADRON. {BY ELEOTBIO TELEGRAPH.) (fBOM OUB OWJf COBEESPONDENT.) Bluff Haeboe, Sunday. Melbouene, Nov. 29. The Omeo arrived in Hobson's Bay to-day. Flour transactions are confined to trade purchases at £l3 to £l4. Adelaide wheat Gs to 6s 3d. Other qualities 5s 6d to 5s 9d. Oats 4s to 4s 3d.Maize 4s to 4s 2d. Barley 4s 6d. New Zealand oats 4s. Tobaccos are very firm. Malt 9s 3d. Wines and spirits dull. Castor oil 4s 3d in bond. Dried apples in demand at 6d. Corn sacks 12s. The news by the English mail is considered satisfactory. The stock aud share markets show a slight improvement. The Flying Squadron was sighted off Cape Otway on Monday. A severe gale came on, and the fleet ran out to sea, but entered the Bay on Friday. The Liverpool, Liffey, Phoebe, and Barossa anchored off Sandridge. The Scylla did not come in, hut was sent in search of the Eudymion, which got separated from the squadron during the gale. Both entered the Heads last night. The Governor and General Chute and his staff went on board the flag-ship on Saturday. Great preparations are being made for a cordial reception of the officers. Numerous balls are proposed, and the Mayor has invited the officers to a picnic in Fern-tree Gully. Severe gales have been experienced all along the coast during the week. The s.s. Malta reached the Bay on the afternoon of Thursday, the 25th. A gang of coiners have arrived by the Collingwood. Their apparatus and a quantity of base silver coin were seized. Joseph Brooks and John Wilson, alias Garnet, are in custody charged with coining. Power, the bushranger, has committed a fresh robbery. The Government offer £3OO for his apprehension.

The Colonial Directors of the European Assurance Company have recommenced business, and will accept no surrender of policies till they receive further advices maintaining the company's solveucy. Higginbotham's Colonial independence resolutions have been further discussed and referred to a Committee the whole House. The Council have adopted important amendments in the Land Bill. It is proposed to establish a Board independent of the Commissioner. Jones has moved a resolution affirmiug the desirability of a reduction in the railway passenger rates, running third class at a penny per mile. Government has received tenders by the last mail for a mail service by the Cape of Good Hope route. William Wood, lately from New Zealand, has attempted suicide. Capt. Kerr, of the ship Victoria Tower, has been presented with an illuminated address signed by sixty of the principal merchants. Three pantomimes are announced for Christmas by Akhurst. Sydney, Nov. 28. Arrived: Auckland, s.s. Nov 26. Sailed: Emma for Dunedin. Californian flour has been sold at auction at .fill 10s. Denis, Patrick, M'Kinlay, Eogers, O'Brien, and Shaw, charged "with fraud, were found guilty and remanded for sentence. Capt. Slaw has stood his trial charged with burning the Snow Bird. The jury were unable to agree, and were discharged. Clark, of the Varieties, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for manslaughter. Palmer and Williams, convicted of Halligan's murder at Eockhampton, have been hanged. The former has made a full confession. Lingford, the treasurer of the Oddfellows' Society, Sydney, has been committed for trial for embezzlement. Dr Welfskohl's estate has been sequestrated. The Port Maequarie's sugar brought 36s at auction.