AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 233, 4 October 1869, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, Sept. 28. The Ministerial elections are causing great excitement. Vale opposes Reeves for Collingwood. The news by the mail has caused an improvement in trade The running of the third class carriages has been resumed. The continued dry weather is causing great uneasiness. The Bishop has proclaimed the 16th October for special prayers for rain. Flour falling, £17 to £18. Oats wanted. Maize, ss. Kerosine rising. Stdnet. In reference to the enquiry into the circumstances attending the seizure of the Schooner Dat>hne, in the South Sea Islands, Chief Justice Stephen has expressed his opinion that the islanders found on board were neither slaves nor intended for slavery. Maize quoted at 4s. 3d. with bettea supply. Intelligence has been received that Count Van Attemps, whose swindles caused Buoh great sensation both here and in Queensland, has been sentenced to 22 months imprisonment at Sourabya. The Bank of Nevr South Wales, Maitland, baa dismissed two clerks in consequence of the recent loss of notes. Alfred Warren, draper, is insolvent. It is reported that a diamond weighing 52 carats has been found in Verelli. The constituents of Messrs. Walker and Paddington bare entertained them at dinner.

The Superintendence. — Mr. Curtis will address the electors at the Provincial Hall, at 8 o'clock to-night. Inspection Parade. — We understand that the first out-of-door Inspection Parade of the season is to be held in the Botanical Gardens to-morrow afternoon. The "Weather. — If the rain that commenced to fall Isi^t night and has continued to do so up to the time of our writing is the result of any arrangements nude by Captain Saxby with the clerk of the weither we can only say that the thanks of the agricultural community are due to that gentleman, who with an amount of prescience that is truly astounding had hit upon the time when of all others the glorious showers that h«ve ju9t fallen would be most acceptable to the thirsty earth. The farmers, who of late have been going about with saddened countenance* on account of the drought whish threatened to ruin all their prospects for the year, are revelling in the new prospects that are opened up to them by the change in the weather and are perfectly willing to take their chance of the tidal wave of which it is supposed by some credulous persons to be the precursor. Eatal Accident. — A most melancholy accidfnt occurred on Saturday last to Mr. Henry Paap, who, in riding a young horse down Manuka street, came in contact with a spring cart that was ascending the hill, the consequence being that Mr. Paap was thrown from his seat and alighted on his head. Assistance was at once rendered, and he was conveyed home, but never recovered his consciousness until the hour of his death which took place at mid-day, yesterday. An inquest was heU this afternoon, when a verdict was returned of " Accidentally killed." Artizans' Societt. — We would call attention to the Entertainment consisting of choice musical selections and popular reauings that is to b,e held at the Oddfellows' Kill to-morrow evening when, we understand, that some of the most talented gentlemen of the Society have volunteered their services, a most entertaining evening may therefore be expected and we hope to see a large audience present. The Approaching High Tide. — Dr. Hector thus replies to an inquiry sent him by telegraph : — "Saxby has good reason for predicting unusually high spring tides with next new moon. But no extraordinary waves like those in August, 1868, can be predicted, as they arise from earthquakes, and have nothing to do with tides. 1 ' Another authority, the Rev. A Stock, of Wellington, thus says : — " There will be new moon here at 2 a.m. on the 6th October ; the highest tide may be expected 36 hours after. Land not much above spring tide may be flooded. Should a S.E. gale be blowing at the time the tide majr ' c very high. — New Zealand Herald.