LATEST INTERCOLONIAL.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1027, 6 December 1872, Page 2

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL.

(PEQ CLAUD HAMILTON.) RESCUE OE THE LOST PAS. SENGERS EROM THE CITY OE NEWCASTLE. MELBOURNE. November 28. The correspondence relative to holding a postal conference in Tasmania has been published. The Government are awaiting a reply from New Zealand. The South Australian Parliament is despatching business, in order to permit tho Governor to depart for England. The Tasmanian 'Tribune' gives as a rumor that Sir James Eergusson is about to marry Miss Davies, of Hobart Town. The Mary Cummiug, schooner, has been wrecked at Cape Pattea. The crew were saved. The John Knox, from Lyttelton, picked up three men and four women in an open boat, sixteen hours away from the wreck of the City of Newcastle, and brought them to Sydney. Mr Parkes made a satisfactory financial statement. There will be a surplus at the end of next year. Business in the Victorian Parliament is drawing to a close. The Council has passed the Education Bill with only slight amendments not affecting its fundamental principles. Mr Fellows positively declines a Judgeship. The bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister svas passed by the Victorian Legislative Council with hardly any discussion, its only opponent being Mr O'Shanassy. It only remains now for the Royal assent to be given to tho measure for it to become the law of the colony, as in South Australia. The announcement formally made in the Assembly by the Speaker that the bill had been passed, was received with loud cheers. SYDNEY. November 28. Public business is delayed by party faction in the house. The Government still hold their own against a feeble opposition. The financial debate has been adjourned. The defence force question is likely to result in a close division. The Goahead steamer arrived on the 23rd from Gre3 r mouth. ADELAIDE. November 28. The South Australian Government propose a bonus of £7OOO to the telegraph expedition; Todd to receive £IOOO, Patterson £SOO, and others in proportion. Intensely hot weather is experienced in all the colonies. The locust plague is causing great destruction to the crops near Adelaide. Interrupted telegraph communication has not been restored. Nearly 900 messages passed over the London and Adelaide line last month, the value of which was over £9OOO, of which Victoria contributed one-half.