AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE.

North Otago Times, Volume XI, Issue 372, 15 December 1868, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE.

3?or the following items from files per Omeo, which arrived at the Bluff on the 10th instant, -we are indebted to Dunedin papers : —

Melbourne, December 5. Fleur is dull at L13 to I/L4 per ton. Wheat is •wanted, at 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d. A small lot of New Zealand sold at 6s. There is no barley in the market. New Zealand oats are at 3s. 9d. j buyers are well supplied. Maize is dull at 4s. 4d. 200 bushels of malt have been sold at 11s. 3d. There have been considerable transactions in cornsacks, holders asking 14s. The wool sales, since the arrival of the English mail, show an advance of Id. Greasy wool now fetches from 5d. to 9d., and scoured from lid. to Is. 8d. per lb. The Governor has awarded the Humane Society's medal to a boy named Blacker, belonging to the training ship Nelson, for saving three persona from drowning. The A.S.N. Company's steamer Alexandra ran down the schooner Cleopatra in the bay on Monday last, and towed her into harbor severely damaged. The Board of Inquiry found the second officer guilty of negligence while he was in charge of the Alexandra, steamer, at the time she ran down the Cleopatra, schooner. The second officer's certificate has been suspended for six months. The captain was exonerated from blame. The station master at Elston Creek was bitten by a brown snake, and the usual remedies were applied without effect. Professor Halford was called in j and on his using his remedy — that of injecting ammonia into the veins — the patient at once recovered, and is now doing well. A similar remedy was successfully applied to a woman at Newcastle about the same time. Mr Bruce, a Customs Clerk, who was well-tnown as an amateur theatriqal, haa levanted. It is stated that hig debts amount to over L300O. St. Andrew's Cathedral, at Sydney has been consecrated. Seventy clergymen were present, and seventysix choristers took part in the ceremony which was a very imposing one. Captain Stack, agent for the New Zealand Government, has had several interviews with the Chief Secretary, regarding the raising of volunteers. The result

is that 200 men have beeu invited to meet Captain Stack on thu 8th inst. An advertisement of four columns and-a-half appears in the " Argus" of to-day, calling for men to emburk next Wednesday. The general opinion is that a corps will be raised. No letter has been received here from Sir Q-eorge Bowen regarding the despatch of Imperial troops to New Zealand. The submarine cable to Tasmania leaves England in January.