LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume X, Issue 1169, 6 August 1866, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(By West Coast Telegraph.) Hokitika, Sunday, 516 p.m. Arrived—Egmont, from Nelson; »pd the Gothenburg, from Melbbotts%itn 150 passengers and 120 tons fergo; also the William Miskini from Oreymouth; and the Prince Consort;, from Lyttelton ; the Jane Elkin, frote'G«y mouth; and the Lapwing,;from edin. Sailed—William Miskin, for Dunedin, via Cook's Straits. Whilo she was lying in the roadstead tho cable snapped, and she lost her best bower anchor, together with several. fathoms of cable. There is a nasty sea outside the bar, and a good fourteen feet of water. The Gothenburg brings Melbourne dates to 27th July. The "Argw, in a leading article on New Zealaflfl, predicts that it must become tw foremost of the Australian colony both from climate and extent, a fla variety of resources. • The NetherK, fron Queensland, an emigrant ship of the Black W line, lies a total wreck on .M 8 island. She had 452 board; both they and the carried to land by a rope, after all m boats were stove. ~ -if*!. Great dissatisfaction; exists bourne at the new mimstenal apF»* ments. It is believed that ttj Ministry will not survive the meew* of Parliament. ~ , h .% A Mr Hastie has bequeathed W estate, which ia expected to »» £GO,OOO, to trustees for ft between Anglican and Churches, and sity, on condition that the.two chungj professed tbe same prmcj .pie iWfg State aid as they did at the tuneojW death. ■ - ■,■/•„ we re More wrecks and loss of W«J f reported from Sydney. the missing steamer r £ono J washed on shore. There have several collisions between tae and bushrangers in Newfao^- « b Connell, one of Clarke's gang, been Bhot dead. . 97th.-— Commercial r - Melbourne, 27^. Business is more active ■» dto rates. Californian , arrive at 7s Od, sett- thiUtf. 7s 3d, on terms.