LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2376, 4 August 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[by electbic telegbaph,]

Dtoedin, August 3,4,20 p.m. The Tararua bringß news from Melbourne to July 28. Some of the ministerial elections have come off and Messrs Grant, Casey, and Sullivan were elected without opposition. G. B. Moore has been appointed Secretary to Mr Verdon, as Agent-General for Victoria. The Victorian glass works are now in progress. Earl Belmore reached Echuca yesterday. He travelled by railway to Sandhurst, and is expected in Melbourne on July 29. The payment of civil servants is proceeding very slowly. The Sandhurst gold buyers have reduced the price 3d per ounce. The two daily Castlemaine papers have conjoined. The Victoria Insurance Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Breadstuffs are depressed, Victorian flour is offered at £lB per ton. Maize sold at 3s 6d. The 4-lb loaf in Gee* long is 9d. Sydney, July 27. The Government has decided to call for fresh tenders on contract No. 7 on the Western Railway. The case ot the Orange procession was dismissed. The markets are dull. Adelaide flour, £l9 to £2l; wheat, 8s; maize, 2s 6d. The Mexicana has arrived from San Francisco with 400 tons of California flour. Adelaide, July 27. The Government intends observing the anniversary of Prince Alfred's visit to the colony. Mrs Hamley laid the foundation stone of the Railway Bridge over the river last Saturday. The Government intends introducing a new Insolvency Bill, containing 396 clauses.

Despatches from Home state thai Colonel Hamley can only draw hall his salary during his term of office. The corn market is very dull "Wheat, 7s per bushel.