TELEGRAMS.
„. _, . Adelaide, Thursday. Mb Excellency has sent a message to the House of Assembly recommendinqr the borrowing £100,000 for a tramway to the Murray: Aliirgeand influential meeting has been held at Kapunda in favor of the northern route. Mr. Alsop, the secretary of the Durhea Mine, has been arrested for defalcations. *i M. r; damson, who was despatched in search of tne M'Klulay party, has arrived iv Adelaide. He has never seen or heard of the party. It is Ms belief that M*K inlay is on the western shore. The House of Assembly have passed a bill to give squatters the right of appeat against the assessment on stock.— Age telecram.
Th r Com f.t.—A correspondent last night informed us that the sky was particularly unfavorable for observation. It was sufficiently clear, however, to admit of determining the position of the comet approximately at follows:—South declination Odeg. 20min Osoc, right ascension 15h. 58snin. 38sec. This ob^ serration was made about ten minutes to seven o'clock, when the light fleecy clouds that nearly covered the sky for a moment retired from the place of the comet Comparing this observation of declination with that made the previous night, the comet appears to have travelled south during that time about 4dt» fiOmin. (teec.— Cattlemaine Advertiur, Sept. 6\^
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 239, 25 September 1862, Page 5
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