AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 209, 6 September 1869, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

August 31. A ladies' velocipede race took place at Collingwood on 18th inst. The subscription in aid of the "released Fenians amounts to £4000. Mrs. Heir took her benefit at the Theatre Royal on the 28th, and returns to New Zealand shortly. Four hundred Chinese saiTfor Dunedin by the next steamer. A proprietary college with ' a capital of £150,000 has been' established. Dr. Barker has been presented with a testimonial consisting of a purse of sovereigns and ,a silver tea service. Mr. Falkner is seriously ill. Resolutions to abolish State aid have been carried. . Count de la Ronciere, the Governor of Tahiti, goes home by the next mail steamer. Governor Weld sailed in the Alexandra for Freemantle. A Commission has been appointed to take evidence regarding the Blave-irade in the South Sea Islands. A boat-race between 1 2 from the U.S.S. Kearsage and 10 of the Naval Brigade has taken place, and was won by the latteer. Maize 375. Teas dull at auction. Grainger and crew pubiic'y thanked by Governor Fergusson. A subscription has been set on foot for a testimonial to Grainger. Arrived: Somersetshire at Hobson's Bay, with 200 passengers, on August 30. Fifty-eight days out. Flour, £15, and rising. M'Kinlay has been arrested on a second charge of embezzling £2000. The Daphne investigation is adjourned *me die.