LATEST TELEGRAMS. THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MELBOURNE NEWS TO 27th ULT. MURDER OF A WESLEYAN MISSIONARY. DUNEDIN. 3rd Oct., 3.40 p.m.

Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 199, 3 October 1867, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MELBOURNE NEWS TO 27th ULT. MURDER OF A WESLEY AN MISSIONARY. DUNEDIN. 3rd Oct., 3.40 p.m.

The Gothenburg has just arrived from Melbourne, bringing dates to the 27th ult. Ga-eat preparations are being made in Victoria to give the Duke of Edinburgh a worthy reception. The flotilla of steamers and other vessels are to go out to Botany Bay to meet the Prince, and escort him to Sydney. Green is to pull against Hickey for the championship on the 28th of this month. Bei-trand's sentence is commuted (the telegram does not inform us to what punishment.) Hickey goes home by the November Panama steamer to pull for the championship of England. Advices from the Fiji Islands report the murder by the natives at Nbvoro of the Rev. Mr. Baker, Wesleyan Missionary, H.M.S. Brisk has been sent to punish them. Sir John Young, the Governor of New South Wales, goes home by the November MaiL He intends to try for a seat in the House of Commons. The Otago arrived at Melbourne on the evening of the 26th ult., after a passjige of five days and a-half. The commercial news is unimportant. Flour was at £11 5 to £11 10 ; wheat, 4s lOd; Patna rice, £27; Renault's brandy, 8s 6d. A Coroner's inquest is now sitting on the body of a man, named Broderick, a horse-dealer, who died on Monday from injuries inflicted by one Strachan, who is now in the custody of the police. The Roman Catholic Community are getting up an agitation for the appointment of a bishop for the Middle Island.