LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. WRECKS AND LOSS OF FOUR. TEEN LIVES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3971, 14 May 1870, Page 4

LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. WRECKS AND LOSS OF FOUR. TEEN LIVES.

MELBOURNE. M*.Y 2: Business »is dull, flour, £11.! New Zealand wheat, 4a. 7d. Maize, scarce, i 4s. 9d. Oats firm at 3s. 2d. to 3s. 4d. Sugars • fluctuating ; holders firm. Candles, 10£ d. ' Thomas Webb Drapef<has been acquitted "on the charge of embezzling the funds of the Commercial Bank. The Langlands Foundry report is highly satisfactory. Mr. Enoch Chalmers have been killed by the upsetting of a buggy. Wintle, formerly gaoler, is dead. Kaye, the amateur billiard player, is dead. The Royal Arcade vas opened to-day, the Mayor in the chair ; 500 guests were present. The ship ' Percy ' has been released from quarantine, and the passengers landed. A testimonial to Hayward, Hawthorn, is proposed. The New Zealand cheese exhibited *t McCane's shop has been much admired. Wood and Cunningham's Christchurch loaf cheese was much commended, Docy Stewart has retired from the stage. The University | hasnegativedthemotion formaking chemistry a subject of examination before matriculation. ) Bathnrst, a notorious swindler, has been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences, and sentenced to three years. Nightingale's box manufactory, Flinders-lane East, has been burnt. Ah Peu has been convicted of the Glenelg murder, and sentenced to death. A large fire has occurred at Ararat, several houses and shops being burned. Mr. W. J. T. Clarke has been I elected chairman of the Bank of Victoria. Charles Verlitte, the acrobat, broke his leg whilst "performing at Ballarat. Kaymoncl and Williams have been acquitted on the charge of fraud. An * nti-State Immigration «nd Protection Society has been formed.

SYDNEY. May 2: The ship 'Walter Hood/ from London, has been totally wrecked at Ulladulla, 130 miles south of Sydney. The com* mander and thirteen others were drowned. The brig 'Spray,' schooner 'nation,' and ketch. • Daiintless ' were also wrecked. A cargo of sugar by the 'Press' showed £1 decline. The number of tmemployed has been greatly over-stated. The Waratah Coal Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Miller, the auctioneer, has disappeared, and his estate has been sequestrated. The QueenslandParliainentaasembled on Tuesday. The Ministry experienced a hostile vote. Hill was sent for, but was unable to form a Ministry, and had relinquished the task. Palmer was ultimately sent for. Barbelle won the Cup ; Earl and Bylong made a dead heat of it for second place. Tim Whiffler won the Queen's Plate. Palls, the proprietor of the Maitland Mercury, is dead.

ADELAIDE. May 2 : Lazar is forming a new theatrical oampany. The corn market is quiet.