TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 341, 15 December 1864, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

[From the Sydney 2lcrald.~\ MELBOURNE. Monday, Nov. 28 Tho R. 11.5. Madras anchored at the Heads until 10 a.m. yesterday, when the galo having moderated she proceeded to sea. Parliament met to-dny. Sir William Stawell (Chief Justice), und Judge Barry oflleiated as Commissioners to awear in tht* members, the former in the Legislative Council and the latter in the Assembly S r Francis Murphy was unanimously elected Speaker, ai':er which the House adjourned, 'l'lie session will bo formally opened by his Excellency the Governe.'.

The Malta, from Valparaiso, brings 12,000Wu flour. The c«ptain reports that ■when, she left breadstuffs were rising. Private advices fr{>m Ijftunccston state that thowheat crop has been much injured by the droughty and in some places, reported to be withering. Hobarfc Town advices contain similar statements. Colonial rata are advancing, sales were effected to* day at 3s. Bd.; 5000 bushels Adelaide whoat placed • to-day at Ss. 3d.; maize firm at sfl. A parcel of keroeene, an outside brand, changed . hands to day at ss. 3d. Flour dull; Adelaide quoted at £21 10s. The estate of Truenbocks, tobacconist, has been placed in the Insolvent Court. Liabilities, £13,000; assets, £5000. Arrived. —Yorkshire! and Glendower, from I/ondon ; Queen of Australia, from Liverpool; Saxonia, s., from Mauritius. r l lie You Yangs did not leave the Heads until this ! morning. ADELAIDE. Monday evening, 28th. Tho civic nomination took place to-day; tie candidates for the Mayoralty were Mr. W. R. T homaa of the Register, and Mr. Towneend, M.P. The election will take place on Thursdaj'. There is considerable excitement as to the result. Tlie veruict at the inquest on the body of J. Baines, liite auctioneer, of Iliiidloy-street, was that ho died from the effects of drink. Business is very quiet. Flour £17 to £20. There is 'i better demand for wheat quoted at 7s Id to 7d 2d, ut the port, none offering. Crops on the plains are much damagel by the heat. Floodman, second officer of tli(? *Subra,' was drowned oil the passage from '.Port Augusta, having ; fallen overboard in the night. Ai rived.—Choice, from Melbourne. Jb'uiled.—Kangatira, for King George's Sound. SYDNEY. (From the Seiccastle Chronicle, Nov. SO.) Tnesday. Nov. 20, 6 p.m. 7 lie nomination for the Glebe took place on Monday ; Mr. T. W. Smart and Mr. Dalgleish were nominated. The show of hands having been declared in favour of Sir. Smart, a poll was demanded.

The polling came off tc-d.ty, and resulted in the rutui n of Mr. Smart. Tin? libel case of Dalgleish v. the Jlirald has been a<!j"uined till to-morrow (Thursday.) The Melbourne Parliament opined yesterday by crmiiiissioii, and the Governor delivered his speech to-day. An attempt at outbreak was made tc-duy by the pi isoners incarcerated fn Berrima gaol, but it wua however quelled. The Richmond and Windsor B>ihray was opened to-day. The Malta arrived yesterday w?th 16,000 baga Chilian Hour. LATEST NEWS. December 2. A great fire broVe out in Brisbane, Queensland, this morning, when a blcr.ck of the principle places of business in tho city was totally destroyed. AmoDg the buildings burnt to the ground was the Bank of Kfvr Sooth Wales, Union Bunk, two hotels, and a number of stores. The schooners Emily Ann and Fying Fsh were totally wrecked on Sunday, in the Manning River, and Jive lives lost. The Southern Light foundered the same day in Broken Bay with the lots of six live?. Tho market price of maize in Sydney is 4s. 3d._ The criminal information of Mr. D. Dalgleish, late member for West Sydney, against Messrs. James and John Fairfax, proprietors of thc Sydney Morning Herald, for libel, which has taken up so much time in the Sydney Central Police Court, and has occupied so large "a shore of public attention, was dismissed on Thursday, by J. Birrell, Esq., the presiding magistrate. WEST MAITLANB. V onday, Nov. 28. Mr. Peter (3rroen hus consented to stand for thiselectorate. Weatlior fine. GRAFTON. Mo'Atfey, Nov. 28. Mr. J. C. Peters has announced hiiJiSslf as a can- [ didate for the Clarence electorate. It io" widoratoods that he is favourable to the Cowper interest. BRISBANE. Monday, Nov. 28. H.M.S. Salamander, and the Lady Young, fromf Sydney, arrived to day. The Boomerang, for Rockhampttn, with the two punts in tow, put in here yesterday, the has. en- ' countered strong head winds.

A lucAN and Pacific Cotton.—A number off Californians have engaged in planting cotton in> Siiualoa and Sonora, Mexico. Seven tous of seed have--been distributed among the natives. It is stated that 3,000 acres have been planted north of the i'ueste; Kiver, The San Lorenzo Agricultural Company planted 1,600 acres to the north of Mazatlan. T)>a company have sent to Massachusetts for a mill.There are -two mills running—one of ten loema aB- - and another at Presidio. It is estimated* that the yield will be 5001b. to the acre; awl the l company have the whole San Lorenza Kiver at l&eir control. At the Sandwich Islands several thousaDti acres havo been planted, and engines, gins, an<J presses, are ready to work. In Central America there is great excitement on cotton, and the people are waking up to an energy they never knew before. Agricultural implements of American manufacture, which had heretofore been repudiated, are now extensively imported ; 650 bales of cotton were at San JOfC lately waiting shipment, and two foreign vessels had on board 8,000 quintals. The island of Tahiti is to be added to the cotalogue of lands which are now producing cotton. The experiment in its growth has been eminently successful there. The new line of steamers about to commence running between NewZealand and Panama will carry this crop to its Atlantic shipment, from whence it will principally go to Europe. Many of tho South Sea Islands, as favourably situate as Tahiti, will also engage in the cultivation, and lessen existing cotton" lates. They are now occupied by canfbals and savages. A late Panama steamer brought 2,000 bales of Pacific cotton, of which 1,100 were shipped at New York.— I'ittsburg Commercial.

The Cost of Hunters. —A ten-stone master od hounds, with an ej'e for a lioree, good judgment, antalent in bargaining can, in the country, mount him self more than decently for fifty guineas, whereas in town the price would be doubled. With increase 0 weight the price runs up frightfully, and an eighteenstone man would give five hundred guineas for a horse, and think himself lucky if the mount suited him in every respect. No amount of weight prevents a man from following, or even keeping hounds, if the passion be on him, and he can afford a proper mount. 'J. here are masters of hounds of seven and a half stone weight, and there are one or two ranging between, eighteen and twenty stone. To get themselves properly carried, men of the latter stamp must expend an enormous sum in horseflesh, requiring as they do, the speed and hunting power of the hunter, combined with the solid strength of the dray-horse. The horses for the huntsman and whips are often good screws, or perhaps horseß which, uialess in full workj, are " rushers," or " pullers," or " rusty." When, these animals are kept in perpetual motion, have a good deal of hard work, and can' have any sadden freak of fancy taken out of them by a judiciously administered "bucketing," they are generally useful mounts for servants. A hoTse with a bad mouth is often a good horse for a whip, or " when an original, delicate mouth is lost, for very few uneducated men have light hands. Horses a little worn are often bought for servants, or very young horses, if the men. aro good workmen, are bought and banded over to the servants to be made. Forty pounds may ba taken as an average price for whips' horses, sixty pounds for huntsmen's mounts; but there is a. master in England who pays a couple of hundred guineas for his huntsmen's horses, but thou the huntsman stands six feet two. These horses are turned out from tho 21st April; and one man can look after r.nd cut grass for six horses: but the average ! price of their keop throughout the year istweuty-frvo pounds e!^_ EEE < Djjvu/s Ow.'—Several of tie commanders of the Federal army are said to have been lawvers. The American civil war appears to bo tho first in which troops have been led to actioa by Attorney-General. What great park formerly went all along the north of Africa to tho Niger, and yet had no tiees in ii ? llungo Park.