INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1119, 22 July 1865, Page 9 (Supplement)

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

(FROM THE AROBS OOBEEJPONDEHt.) Cape Otw at, July 14, 11 p.m. QtJEENSCLIFF, July 14. The Carioca, 312 tons, David Hughes, from Valparaiso, 17th April, brings 11,000 bags of flour and 3000 bushels of wheat, for Melbourne. Dalgety and Co., agents. No shipping reported as loading for the Colonies.

Sale, July 14. Great floods have taken place in Gipps Land. Nearly all the bridges on the Melbourne road are washed away. Monday's mail from Melbourne has not arrived. The mailman, it is feared, is drowned. The mails for Gipps Land should be sent via Port Albert, for safety, pro tern.

Post Albert, July 14. From the signal station at Port Albert Heads, 'we have intelligence that the barque Freetrader, with a cargo of cattle from this port to Hobart Town. Captain Thomas, master, is ashore on the spit at the entrance to Corner Inlet, with lore and mizea masts gone, and the sea breaking over the vessel. The harbor- master, with his schooner and crew, have gone to. her assistance. The Freetrader passed over the Port Albert bar on Sunday, the 9tb, with a fair wind. It is supposed she took refuge in Corner Inlet from the south-east gales on Monday, the 10th. She was seen coming out this morning, at seven o'clock. Two p.m. The Ant, s.s., just arrived (Captain Patrick) reports having run down with the harbor-master to the bark Freetrader, and found the vessel all right, off Rabbit Island.

Sydney, July 14. Miss Dickscm's trial has closed, and the jury have retired. Mrs. Butler, landlady of the Hit-or-Miss Hotel, Bowling-alley Point, has been found murdered in her bed, with fifteen stabs in various parts of the body. Her husband has been arrested on suspicion. 'Government have refused to permit g«ods being bonded for package duty.

1,30,000, is being formed, to work the kerosene mineral deposits at Hartley.

Additional items, extracted from Messrs Greville and Bird's (Beater's agents) telegrams :— Sydney, July 14. The inquest on the fire at St. Mary's Cathedral has been adjourned until the 28th inst. No clue as to the cause of the fire has as yet been discovered. ! : Cattle are quoted this -week at £5 10s 6d,, and sheep at 13s to 14i 6d each. Flour is rather firmer. Chilian sells at £19 10s per ton. Of Adelaide wheat there is none ia the market. Holders of Chilian wheat aak 8s 9d., whilst buyers offer 8i 6d. There is an increased demand for flour. Mr W. Dean told by auction to-day, Matthew and Wright's aromatic tobacco,, at 2s 6d per Ib, in bond; and other lots of tobacco at from 7d to Is per lb in bond. The Hartley Kerosene and Parafine Oil. Company has been formed, with a capita?; of L 30.000. A sufficient number of shareii have been issued to form the working capital, and these have all been taken up at a premium of 5s per shares The machinery is now being cast here, and it is expected that the works will be in active operation in two months from the present time.

Adelaide flour is being sold, in small lots, at L2l 10s per ton.

Adelaide, July 14. The Government land sale yesterday realised L 10,263. A meeting of the shareholders of the Adelaide Bank will be held on the 9th August, to settle the provisional deed of settlement, and elect directors.

Despatches sent to the Government Resident in the Northern Territory censure him for delay in surveying the country. The site of the capital is not to be fixed until further orders are sent.

Four carcases of beef, which arrived by steamer from Melbourne, were exhibited ia Rundle-street this morning. The price charged for prime parts was 8d per lb. Fat cattle are in brisk demand. Prime bullocks, Ll2 to L 18; cows, L8 to Lll. Fat sheep are in full supply—prime at 193 to 235.

Business is quiet. Woolpacks have been, sold in quantity at 4a lOd, cornsacks at 13s 6d to 145. There have been no transactions in wheat; sellers ask 9s. Flour is quiet at Ll9 103 to L2O 10s.

Bank of Adelaide shares are quoted today at 7s premium.

Some 250 tons flour were quitted to-day. A parcel of wheat was sold at 9s. This price has been given both by millers and exporters. No B ink of Adelaide shares were allotted to Melbourne applicants, but it is understood that Melbourne people have bought at a premium.

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL

14th July, 1865,

Breadstuff's are commanding a good deal of attention. A number of small sales of Adelaide flour have taken place. Country brands, L2L sa; best town qualities, L2l 15s. It is understood that the shipment of 1000 barrels per Maggie Leslie wa3 sold in one lot ; price undivulged. Increased activity in teas; good common congous, Is 3d to Is 4Jd for half-chests, in bond; Is 7d for good mediums; long-leafed orange pekoe, 2s. Salt, L 3 15s. Guiness's stout, 10s l£d; Machen's, 9i 9d. Henessey's case brandy, 29*.

MELBOURNE.

(»ROM. OUE OWfl CORREBPOHDENT.) July 13. TTor once the English Mail, although of course after time, has arrived early enough to allow of the New Zealand portion of her letter-boxes being despatched in regular course by the Hero. Few events of more than local interest have occurred here since the despatch oi my last. The political "situation" remains almost unchanged. The Ministry still keep their own counsel with respect to the Tariff Bill, and thjjs precise date at which they intend to sutunii that much debated subject to the decision of the Upper House, and that House perseveres in its policy of delay in. the meantime. Owing t<v that polioy, the Mining Bill, which has cost so much time and labor in the Assembly, is likely to be lout altogether; and even the Water Supply Bill is not entirely out of danger from the same cause. Determined upon doing nothing to help the Ministry and their supporters, the Council refused to have anything to do with preparing an address to the Queen, praying for assistance from the Imperial Government in the matter of the Colonial Defences, but got up a perfectly useless and resultless debate of their own upon the question, in which Mir Sladen, the prime mover "in the debate, dilated for about a couple of hours on the respective merits of the various sorts of big guns, and came to the conclusion that a couple or so of floating batteries was all. that was required for the efficient defence of our port and shipping. The Assembly; on their part, have prepared a very sensible address to Her Majesty upon the subject, which document, should nothing at pre*sent unforseen happen to prevent that' course being taken, will be consigned to England, and handed to the Secretary of State by the Treasurer, Mr Yerdon.

The Government have just gained whaft they are no doubt disposed to consider glorious victory, with respect to the work,-, ing of the new Land Act. I have takea occasion in former letters to inform, jonr readers that opinions are very much divide^ here with reference to the mannei in which the new Act works, and that in certain quarters a feeling bitterly hostile to that measure. has been evoked. That the Act has its faults—and great ones, too—there can be very little doubt, and even the friends and supporters of the Ministry are disposed to admit as much; but, notwithstanding these defects, amongst which the encouragement of a spirit of gambling may be considered one of the worst, it ia pretty certain that a large number of bona fide settlers are taking up land under its. provisions, and that is more than could bet said of any previous Victorian .Land Act. It seems, indeed, after all, to be to the fact of the working of the Sill in this latter direction that the chief portion of the animosity to the Bill of the majority of the pastoral tenants of the Crown:is to be ascribed. But to return, to the "victory," which, as I said above, has recently been gained' by the Government upon., this, same question:—Simson versus the Queen, tried in this city a few days since at the Equity Sittings of the Supreme: Court,,was a case in which the'petitioner,: a., squatter, moved for an injunction, against^ the Board of-Land and Works, to restrain that department from offering for selection

petitioner's run, until, as a bolder of land certificates, he (Simsoia) had first exercised "priority; of selection."» The ease created a great deal of interest, as these • land certificates are largely held by squatters and speculators, and as it would, be enormously to 'the advantage of the holders to be allowedl to "'pick out the eyes " of all the agricultural area* opened up throughout the colonj', previously to the admission of the general public to take their chance in the land lottery. Opinions, .had been obtained by the petitioner and his friends from no lewer than five barristers of-note in favor of their pretensions, and they were very sanguine indeed of success in the Supreme-Court. Their hopes were, however, doomed to utter disappointment in the matter, for, after taking a day or, two to consider his decision, Judge Molesworth, before whom the case was tried, delivered judgment, dismissing the petition with costs, and reading the .petitioner a somewhat seven? lecture on the vexatious line of action he had taken. ; ■.'

Rumor has been very busy during the last few dayu with the name of the late Acting-Commander of the Volunteer force of this Colony,—-Lieutenant- Colonel Pitt. That gentk-mau has left the Colony much to the regret of his friends—and numerous creditors—having previously placed the resignation of his military rank and honors in the hands of the Executive.

The claims of Dr Evans to compensation in lieu of a pension for his services to the State as a Minister of the Crown have been again discussed in the Assembly; but, after a warm debate extending over some hours, the House, by a majority of 27 to 22, disposed of the question in Committee by carrying the motion—" That the Chairman do leave the chair." A good deal of sympathy for the worthy doctor in his disappointment is felt by most persons here, for although even his best friends must admit that political consistency was a virtue not possessed by him in a very high degree, it is considered that his moral claim to a pension was at lcatt as good as that of Mr Ireland or of Mr Duffy, both of whom fought for, and obtained a legal decision, entitling them to a permanent provision from the Victorian public purse. The weather, which for the winter season had been very dry indeed up to Sunday last, then broke up, and since that .day it has rained almost incessantly.