LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4000, 17 June 1870, Page 3

LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

The brigantine ' C'amille' arrived in harbour yesterday morning from Newcastle, bringing three days' later news 'from Australia. We take the following from the Sydney Morning I Herald: —

MELBOURNE. June 3 : The Assembly are debating the i Federation question.— The citizens intend, presenting the Mayor with a massive gold collar, on the occasion of the opening of the new Town Hall. — Mr, Parsons, the barrister, known from his eccentric letters to the Colonial Office, has committed suicide he had written to the police that his body would ! be found at the end of a clothes-line, attached 1 to a post, on the bank of the Yarra, behind | the residence of the Chief Justice, at Kew, I and search being made it was discovered. Fn this letter he scouted the idea that the step he was about to take was the result of inI sanity, and requested that the jury would return a verdict of "Found drowned," or felo de se. — The Melbourne Meat - Preserving Company have decided on an increase of capital.— Charles Mathews proceeds to Ballarat and the G-oldfields ; thence to Sydney in August.— Sales of tobacco by auction are brisk. June 2 : Messrs. Greig and Murray sold [ by auction this morning- Hennessy's brandy [ (cases), at 275. 3d. ; Hennessy's pale brandy (bulk), at 6s. 3d. to 6s. 4d. ; Otard'a old brandy (bulk), at 6s. 9d. ; Martell's dark brandy (bulk), at 6s. to 6s. 2d. ; Central Vineyard brandy, 380 cases at 103. 6d. per case ; old rum (E. W.P.), at 3s. sd. to 3s. 9d.; geneva (V.H.), four gallon cases, at 13s. 6d.

-NEWCASTLE. June 2 : Arrived — 'Deva,' brig, Lane, from Auckland.

ADELAIDE. June 3 : The Estimates of the last Government having been adopted by this, it is probable they will be passed in a lump. — The Government have introduced a new Insolvency Act, doing away with the assignment clauses. — The Commissioner of Crown Lands has tabled in the Assembly- his land regulations,providing that all lauds available for agricultural purposes be surveyed in blocks not exceeding 640 acres, and" to be offered for selection at £1 per acre, payable in ten yearly instalments of 2s. Provision is also made for further reducing the upset price of land remaining unselected after a certain time. — Subscriptions to the Sailors' Home now amount to £3,230.— The Clerk in Equity is to be appointed to relieve the Judges of the work at present done by them. —The corn market is firm, though there is little inclination to business.

SYDNEY. ■ June 4 : The prevalent stagnation of trade has at length overcome the steadiness of prices in some commodities, and a decline has been submitted to. Among the articles referred to may be mentioned sugar, tea, flour, wheat, rice, brandy, rum, malt, kerosiue,and ■wool-packs. There is nothing doing in bottled beer. Credit is good, but the prejudicial effect of the recent floods is felt throughout our trading circles.— Messrs. Bradley, Newton, and Lamb held a sale of general merchandise at their rooms on Thursday. A shipment of white lead was quitted at from 16s. to 28s. per cwt. ; chamois skins (with all faults), from ss. Gd. to 275. 6d. A large quantity o f sugar and other groceries were disposed of (with all faults, and for net cash). Mauritius and Bourbon brought £26 to £36 7s. 6d. ; pickles, 6s. 6d. ; keiosine oil, 2s- 7|d. ; jams, 7s. ; American hops, 7d. ; ehe esej Bd. A small shipment of Honolulu sugar was disposed of at £33 to £37 7s. 6d. P|r ton. — The wreck of the schooner ' Panic' °* '66 was sold by Messrs. Stubbs and Co., th^s morning for £35. -- A parcel of Patna and Java rice was placed this morning at i2O and £22 respectively. The market is reported bare, and the demand strong.