LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 875, 17 October 1871, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The steamship Claud Hamilton, arrived at the Bluff, at 4 p.m , on the 13th instant. She brings 19 chief and 41 steerage passengers, and 409 tons cargo for all ports. Melbourne. Oct- 7. The Intercolonial Conference have agreed to subsidise two postal lines, viz., via Suez and San Francisco, the amount of subsidy, =£123,000, to be distributed between Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Qeenaland, and Tasmania,pro rat-a to population. New Zealand will be allowed to join the agreement, and quota would be £16,700, but will not require to provide her own branch service. The mails to be fortnightly. A fracas took place Under the Verandah between Vonvel and Spargo, mining speculators. From argument they went to blows, and the former was hurt internally by a fall, and is since dead. Itosenwachs, pawnbroker, levanted to Fiji. The creditors and other dupes subscribed, and sent the steamer Balclutha to intercept and fetch him back. The reported murder of Ann Marriott is probably a case of suicide, or the result of a fit. Sailed —Hero, for Auckland: 10, Alma, and Magnet, for G-reymouth. Flour, £l3 to £l3 ss; Victoran wheat, 4s 7d ; New Zealand oats, 2s lid to 3s ; Hew Zealand wheat, 5s 3d. Sugars have advanced £1 per ton. Tobacco considerably dearer. The question of Sunday recreation is much agitated. Douglass', of Dunedin, boat lowering apparatus has been tried, and found to work satisfactorily.