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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1111, 30 September 1873, Page 2

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[Anglo-Australian Press TelegraphAgeucy] WELLINGTON. September 29. He Westport Railway and Harbor Works. Total appropriation passed on Friday night £loo,ooo. No discussion. Mr O'Conor spoke in favor of immediate commencement of the work. AUCKLAND. September 29. Hoskins and Hazard will be two of the representatives at the Victorian Intercolonial Firing The Herald telegram from Waikato says that Purukutu movements cause uneasiness. Native affairs are looking serious. DUNE DIN. September 29. It is stated that Messrs Henderson & Co., of Glasgow, will start a new line of vessels from London to Otago shortly.—Six ships of 1290 tons each are building. A splendid Clydesdale horse and mare imported per Bebington ; cost over one thousand two hundred asked for English Cricket Team come to there. [Our readers are requested to interpret this paragraph for themselves. The Westport telegraphist courteously repeated the message back to Wellington to discover errors therein, but the reply was, "just as received from agent."] • % LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE. September 18. Mount and Morris have been released from custody, the writ upon which they held being illegal. The prisoners were re-arrested as convicts illegally at large. They were escorted by a large crowd, and cheered to the watch-house. A writ of false imprisonment is issued against Inspector Duncan by Mount and Morris; each claims £2500 damages. Ihe new Land Bill provides for 610 acres for selection. A reorganisation of the Public Works Department is proposed. Mr Francis declares the House will sit till Christmas. The Stawell difficulty is ended by a compromise. Flannel and Blanket making is projected at Geelong The Alfred Graving Dock is finished. The laches of Attorney-General Stephen re Mount and Morris are universally condemned. The prestige and position of the Government are threatened by the bungling of Mr Stephen, who will probably retire from the Cabinet.

Breadstuff's very firm. It is believed stocks are low ; oats, 5s to 5s Id. The opening wool scales will be early in October. SYDNEY. September 17. The Permissive Bill has been read the first time. A private tramway company is formed. H.M.S. Clio leaves for Wellington on October 4. The Atlantic, French ironclad, has left for Auckland. BRISBANE. September 17. The Torres Straits steamer is expected here on the 20th instant. ADELAIDE. September 17. Miners are petting two (ten 1) guineas weekly at Wallaroo. Tho half-year's Estimates for immisrntion are £20,000, for public works £99,000, for railways £70,000, total expenditure, £-102,000. Wheat is firm at Gs sd. AKRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL. BLTJEE. September 25. The s.s. Albion, Captain John M'Lean, with the English August mail, arrived at the Bluff at 4.30 p.m. She left Melbourne on the night of the 20th instant, and bring thirty-saloon and twenty-four steerage passengers ; she has 4-10 tons of cargo for all ports. LONDON. August 8. At the first meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank of Now Zealand, the chairman stated that the Bank did not intend to compete with merchants in any way, but to do a purely banking business. The report was adopted. A prospectus has been issued in G-lasgow of a New Zealand Meat Preserving Company, with a capital of £200.000, to purchase a business now existing in New Zealand. A petition for the dissolution of tho New Zealand Quartz-Crushing Company has been dismissed with costs. One of the chief attractions of the Colonial Department of the Vienna Exhibition is Mr Brogden's show of New Zealand birds. The Canadian loan of two millions has been introduced.

Barley has advanced Gs per quarter The hop picking has been unfavorable.

"Wool market steadily improving.

Arrived from New Zealand : Zea landia, A.gnes Muir, Chile, Ccelono and City of Duijedin.

Departures : For Wellington—E. P. Boiiverie and Queen Bee. For Otago : Otago and Lady Jocelyn. For Auckland— Uvdaspos find Ferndale. For Canterbury—Melope.