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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2005, 3 June 1868, Page 4

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(FttOM OUII OWN <■■' MPONUEHTH.) Wellington, Tuesday. Tho Qiuellc contains an extension o£ time for tho Prison Commission, the date of reporting being made tho 2!Hh o£ August, instead of tho 2i)th May. Christchurch, Lyttclton, and Kaiapoi. are proclaimed boroughs under tho Municipal Act. Blttfp, Tuesday. Tho Tararua has arrived. She leffe Melbourne May 28th. The Melbourne Meat Preserving Com-. pany is fairly launched, and operations have been baguii. The company hava leased buildings, and ICO acrc3 of land, at Raleigh's Point. Sir Redmond Barry has been elected Chancellor, and Dr Browulesa ViceChancellor, A protest waa lodged against Jones's election for Ballarat, thoro being an. alleged informality on tho part of tha Returning Officer. Thoro was great excitement on the day of election, and there wero several serious street fights. Re~ ligioua animosities being aroused, one person fired a shot. The mob attempted to Lynch him, and tho police, in rescuing: him, were severely handled. The Argus has a leader on the subject of the recent trial—Bateman v. Moiiafc, and Moffat threatens a prosecution forlibel. The Admiralty Survey of the cosust, between Cape Schanck and Wilson's Promontory, is progressing, Victorian Railway returns are iur proving by an average of L 470 weekly. On tho election day, a school? lastcr,. near Kyneton, an Orangeman, .veceivei a threatening letter, ordering birr t to leave the district. Ovens Election. — Kerf or d, 1233 ; Berry, 1035. Vilmkrs Emotion.—M'T>onnoi, 793; Baylia, 535 ; Cook, 503. . A .v the returna are not yet in, bu.t M'Doar l el and Baylia are Becure. Parliaraerat in.eetß to-in' >rrow. O'Grady and Gillies expect to obtain seats. Sailed,—At ma, J. B. Moore, for Hokitika. Flour, Ll9 10s., few traiiaactiona j. maize ia in demand at 3s lOd. Thore has heoD speculation, in teas.— Sugars lower.

SYDNEY.

A pair of w'uite gloves was presented tor Judge Lutry che, at the Assizes.

BRISBANE.

Gympic , Creek diggings aro slightly improving. The Government asked to withdraw State from 36 denominational schools, at fUe end of the year. The Bank of New South Wales, Sofald, teas been robbed of LI7OO. Barnes and M'Evitt wore hanged aft ( Battmrat pai'aeMlay. The length of fall

waa so great that their necks were nearly torn from the;r bodies. Arrived.—Princo Alfred, from Auckland. Portions of the wreck of a supposed large American vchhcl have been found at Broad Sound. The shock of an earthquake was felt at Manoroo on the 17th inst. L2OO reward is offered for the apprehension of the murderers of Hawkers at Narrandera. Breadstuff's dull. Adelaide flour, L 22 10s.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Tho 10th Regiment in: to be removed, and replaced by the 18th Royal Irish. Archdeacon "Woodcock is buried. Randall's fitono mansion wan destroyed by fire.

Duffiold and Co.'b new mill lias been opened.