LATER FROM THE SOUTH.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3749, 24 July 1869, Page 5

LATER FROM THE SOUTH.

I AKRIVAL OF THE BAKQUE ' SOUTHERN CKOSS.' The barque ' Southern Cross,' Captain Thompson, arrived in harbour ab 3.30 tliia morning from Lyfctelton, after a good passage of seven days. Captain Thompson reports having left Lyttelton on July 16, and had contrary winds till off the Bay of Plenty, Tfhen it blew a heavy gale from the S.E. Eounded Cape Colville on Wednesday night last at 6 p.m., and arrived in harbour as above. We have to thank Captain Thompson for Lyttelton papers to the day of sailing. Cargo: 18,200 bushels wheat, barley, and oats, j. S. Macfarlane (agont). A rumour was current in Christchuroh on the 13th that gold had been discovered in the Omi Creek, a confluent of the Waipara.

i We have Ghristchurck papers to the 15th, from which we take the following : —

NARROW ESCAPE FROM FIRE AT GREYMOUTH. AN INCENDIARY AT WORK, (FROM THE " WEST COAST TIMES," JULY 13.) Gbeymouth, Monday. A felonious attempt was mad© last night to set fire to the premises of Messrs. Sampson and Coolr, furniture dealers, in Tanner-street, and which, but for the prompt measures taken by members of the Fire Brigade, would have destroyed a whole block of buildings, and perhaps the whole of the town. The inhabitants of Qreymouth are greatly alarmed, and it is supposed by many that the disastrous fire which destroyed the blocks only a short time ago originated in the same manner, the fire having been kindled under the house, and burned through the floor of the billiardroom in the Melbourne Hotel, which was the place where fire was seen first. A meeting will be held by the leading business men of the town, and it is proposed to offer a reward for such information as will lead to the discovery of the perpetrators of this attempt.

Gseymouth, July 13. Victorian news is unimportant. The ship ' Somersetshire ' arrived home in sixty days. Flour, £13 10s to £14; wheat, Gs 2d to 6s 3d, fine samples ; 1,500 bags N. Z. oats sold on the sth, at 4s 2d to 4a 3d ; maize in brisk demand, at 4s 4gd to 4a 3d ; candles, 9|d to 9|d ; slightly damaged teas realised full prices, as well as most other articles. Market generally lively. Fresh reefs reported at the Turnkey Creek diggings. The Bill Eegistrar of the Supreme Court of Queensland has been committed for embezzlement. '('mar Pacha' loss falls heavy on the local insurance companies. A man named Croker has been committed for^trial for rape on a child ten years old., The markets are depressed. The 'Buckley Castle ' has cleared fop London with a full cargo of produce.