LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Issue 159, 11 August 1865, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, 31 st July, The Adams Bay settlers arrived, via Batavia ; they report general dissatisfaction amongst the party. The Carioca has arrived from Valparaiso with breadstuff's, which have since been sold at good prices. Sydnei-, 24th July. Mr. Keene, gold-fields inspector, reports that a valuable deposit of iron ore is situated near Singleton, close to the Northern Railway. Lyster's Opera Company have completed a most successful engagement at Ipswich, and are now playing at Brisbane. The inquest on the fire at St. Mary's was resumed to-.day. The Coroner refused to admit either the clergy or the press. 25th July. The company formed to work the mineral shale, in the Hartley district, report that one ton of the mineral has produced 220 gallons of crude kerosene. 26th July. | A portion of the evidence respecting the fire at St. Mary's Cathedral, shows that the fire was caused by some lighted charcoal falling accidently from an incense censer. Glenco arrived from Valparaiso with 15,000 bushels of wheat, and has since sailed for Melbourne. 29th July. Golden Age and Meteor arrived from Valparaiso with 475 tons of wheat, and 364 tons of flour: dates, May 12. They report that the Jean de Flanders arrived from Sydney on May 10. Flour, £14 10s. Great demand for Californian. Steamer Jeddo coming up the harbor ran down a coal-laden barque, and sank it; one man was drowned. Public subscriptions are flowing in towards the restoration of St. Mary's Cathedral. y Ist August. David Young, alias Fatham, after three days' trial, has been found guilty of the Daylesford murder on wholly circumstantial evidence, and sentenced to death, with no hopes of a reprieve. The Leichardt Search Expedition started early in the month, and are expected to be out over two years. In a letter to the Governor, Augus recommends him to rely on his own judgment in the present prices (crisis ?) without reference to the law officers, who he says have already misled him. The next movement of the Governor is anxiously looked for. The civil servants, as well as the general public throughout the colony, are disgusted. It is expected that the Governor must dissolve Parliament to extricate the country from a dead lock. Spaight, the Secretary of the Peakdowns Copper Company, has disappeared, and is supposed to have gone to Callao; he is not yet discovered. Joint Stock Bank shows a dividend of twelve and a-half per cent. Australian Steam Navigation Company's report shows a loss of ten thousand eight hundred pounds on the half-year, principally owing to competition with the I Queensland Company. Business very quiet, owing to the operation of the Package and Stamp Duties. Flour: prices unaltered. Several Valparaiso vessels are a long time overdue. Queensland is anxious to get South ' Australia to contribute towards the mail line via Cape York. I The railway from Ipswich to Gibb's creek was opened on July 31.

Adelaide. The Adelaide Qp Vnment has advertised for tenders for. Is to the Northern territories ; none have yet been received. The Assembly,? on the question of the mail contract, universally denounced the monopoly granted to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, "ignoring Adelaide as a port of call, resolved., to solicit the cooperation of Victoria, and, Queensland in getting a local company to undertake the service to Galle.' The Mary Cumming has arrived from Fremantle, and brought four passengers who had quitted the Oamden Harbour. Branch steamer sailed for the Sound on Saturday morning. The wheat is sure to be backward next harvest. Wheat quiet; the sales yesterday were Bs. lid. to 9s. at 'the port. Flour, country brands,, from £19 10s. : town .£2O.