LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 984, 2 July 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

MELBOUENE. June 22. The nominations for the re-electio: of the new Ministry show that |§ are opposed and two are unopposed It is believed that all will be « elected. A great exposure has been made o a manipulation of the Land Act by tn permission of the evasion of penalne for non-compliance with the condition of the Act; also, of a corrupt subnd' to the 4 Times,' a Ministerial journal at the rate of £7OOO a-year, in G° fernment advertisements. It has been determined by tbenei Government to nullify the Ban Fra* sisco postal arrangements with M

Webb, and to rescind the Hoey appointment. The New Government promises not to interfere with the fiscal policy for the present. James Stevenßon, newly arrived by the Bensedi, from London, shot himself at Queenscliffe. A great yield is reported of 3600zs of gold from twelve tons of quartz at Daylesford. The action of Clampit v. Dr Blair resulted in a non-suit. Appell, a levanting sharebroker from Sandhurst, was intercepted at the Heads, and taken with a large gum in his possession on board the mail steamer. Captain Moonlite Egertou, the bank robber, one of. the gaol breakers at Ballarat, has been re-taken with two others.

An organisation has been set on foot, including Coppin,. Harwood, Stewart, and Hennings, to re-build the Boyal Theatre. A proposal has been made to build I an Opera House. Kate Vinson, nee Warde, the act- ' tress, is dead. There is great excitement in electioneering matters. Jackson, found guilty of an outrage on an old woman at Footscray, and sentenced to death, has had his sensentence commuted to twenty years* penal servitude, the first three in irons. I The Hon. Mr Casey has been apr pointed Minister of Agriculture. Mr Justice Barry is seriously indisposed. Emily Burchall, governess to Mr Orr, at Heathcote, has been committed for trial for infanticide. A disgraceful rowdy scene occurred at an election meeting at Sandhurst. Arrived —Rangitote and Kate Conley, from New Zealand, Sailed —Alhambra, for Bluff; 10, for Greymouth. Tookeys, buyers, £9; sellers, £lO. Flour, £l6 to £l6 10s; wheat, 7s to 7s 4d; oata, 3s to 3s 6d. A line of 3000 bushels of New Zealand oats was sold at 3s. Sugars are firmly held for an advance. SYDNEY. Nicholls and Lester were executed for the Paramatta River mnrders. Both admitted their guilt and the justice of the sentence, and warned voung men to profit by their sad example. Lester said that the news of his fate would be the death of his mother in England. Krohman's claim at Tatnbaroora, is richer than ever. The Blanche is to continu her cruise of the Islands longer than waa originally intended. Some imported cattle by the Ranee, have been pronounced deceased, and have not been allowed to be landed. The Government will probably accede to the proposition for the abolition of tonuage dues. The disgraceful conduct, of the Government undertaker in making a public show of the bodies of Nicholls and Lester, was promptly stopped. The Annie Fish takes 343 bales of wool for San Francisco.

LYTTELTON, June 27. Sailed—Kaiuma, and Wild Wave for Hokitika. The ketch Straggler has been wrecked at Le Bond Bay, but no lives were lost. INVERCARGILL, June 27. In the Supreme Court, Connor, convicted of stealing cheques and cash was sentenced to 18 months ; Christie, for stealing money and horses, received four years. The G-rand Jury returned no bill in the case of M'lntosh. They found a true bill against Ingpen, as the Registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, but no bill on the charges against him as Registrar of Supreme Court.