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Otago Witness, Issue 715, 12 August 1865, Page 5

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[from the mklboxtrnb papers.] Sydney, Tuesday, 25th July. The Rifle Association have finally decided thit the annual match shall commence on the 28th Octoher, and the Intercolonial Mitch in the following week. During a quarr^ between Chinege miners at Tatnbaroora, on Sunday, one was stabbed, and has Av.cs died of his wounds. The murderer v. as arjcsted, and has been committed for trial. The sum of L 330 was subscribed yesterday at Wollon^ong towards the restoration of St Mary's Cathedral. One ton of the Hartley mineral has produced 220 gallons of crude Kerosene. Maize is quoted at 3s 3d. The Glimpse, from Puget Sound, brings 300,000 feet of lumber. She reports the Envoy loading for Adelaide. Wednesday, 26th July. A portion of the evidence respecting the fire at St Mary's Cathedral shows that the fire was caused by some lighted charcoal falling accidentally from an incense censer. Business remains very quiet, Mr Dean offered the cargo of teas, ex Bertha, but having sold only a few parcels at holders' limits, withdrew the balance for higher rates. The same auctioneer also sold a large parcel of Mauritius sugars at L 29 to L 43. The Collaroy, s.s., from Newcastle, came into collision with the schooner Comet, twenty miles off the Heads, last nieht. The Callaroy towed her back to Sydney, greatly injured. Thursday, 27th July. Twenty-one crack rifle shots ara candi-

dates for selection for the intercolonial match. The inquest on the death hy collision with the mail steamer and the schooner Ada is yet unfinished. At to- day ' 3 wool sales, about 150 bales 1 were offered, but only part were sold at lasi- week* rates. Sheepskins sold briskly at ~>d to 7<l. Fiour i* much firmer. A'lehHe is quoted at £22; C'lilian wheat brings 9s. Small sales of MarteU's brandy have been made at 7s 61. Potatoes are 10a higher. The Maid of Honor, from Mauritius, brings 3,322 baers sugar. The cattle market was le*s firm thisweek in consequence of the large number yarded. Prime cattle are quoted at £5 I9s, Sheep are slightly lower, and are quoted at from 14s 3i to 15s. There was not sufficient wool offered afr the sales to-day to teat the market. Fkiday, 28 th July. In the Supreme Court to-day, Mrs Clark Irving applied to dissolve an injunction restraints her from dealing with her husband's estite. The case was unfinished. Large sales are reported of sugar for the New Zealand markets, on private terms. About 2500 bags, ex Montrose, were sold at auction to-da}', at a slight decline on late prices; but, on the whole, the market is firmer. Maize has advanced Id, all offering being bought up on Melbourne account. Tobacco is still dull ; and small parcels of inferior sold at auction realised low rates. The sum of L 216 was subscribed at Kiama and Jamberoo on Thursday, and L2OO at Orange, towards the fund for the restoration ot St Mary's Cathedral. The cargo of sugars ex Maid of Honor, from Mauritius, has been sold, on private terms. The sugars were bought for exportation. Saturday, 29th July. The A.S.N". Company are prepared to tender for the mail service to G'ilJe, if the colonies will have a service of their own. The boat race between White and Galbraith was won by the former. Business is very quiet. Maize firm at 2s 4d. The sum of LSOO was subscribed at Bathurst, on Thursday last, towards the fund for restoring St Mary's Cathedral. Floar had risen again in price, and was quoted at Ll4 per ton. There was a heavy demand for breadstuffs for California. Monday, 31st July. The Herald, in a leader, severely condemns the revolutionary conduct of the Victorian Government. Adelvide, Tuesday, 2.5 ih July. A privilege question has been initiated, the Legislative Council asking the Chief Secr.-tary to state on whit grounds he holds office alter the recent vote of censure. The Government schooner Blanche has been totally wrecked at Wallaroo. High tides and heavy gale 3 have been experienced during the last twenty-four hours. The barometer stands at 29 40. The Government of Queensland has telegraphed to know whether this Government will contribute towards a line of mail steamers via Cape York. The South Australian Government replied by requesting to know what amount they would be expected to contribute. Exchange. — All the banks, except the National, sell their draffs at sixty days' sight at 1} per cent, premium, and pur- - chase bills of the same date at par. The ■ National Bank purchases document bills ■ at par, and will buy bank bills at from half to three quarters per cent, premium. i Four hundred Bank of Adelaide shares i were quitted to-day at 03 premium. s Wednesday, 26th July. ' The new National Bank shares for investors in the colonies are all taken up. " The remainder, for allotment in London, 1 goes by mail to-morrow. An influential new local assurance coras pany has been started. In the Legislative Council, while the clerk was reading the Melbourne telegram 3 published in the Daily Telegraph, severely 2 criticising the conduct of the Government Resident in the Northern Territory, the Council objected to the document, and the c reading of it was discontinued, c Thursday, 27 th July. Mr Adam G. Bell, the explorer, writes "• an excellent letter to the Register, which a appears to-day, stating that it is his in- * tention to explore what is believed to he a 5 good pastoral country between Mount r Margaret and Nicol Bay, on the Northp west Coast. He assumes that Leichardt ; - penetrated this country to the westward, c seeing that no intelligence has been re- '•> ceived of his (Leichardt's) large travelling •• stock in any of the often-traversed country '1 to the eastward, or any of the other liue3 of route followed by the great expeditions of recent years. A large number of Adelaide Marine

Shares have been quitted to-day at 28s «d. In the Assembly, Mr Hart's resolutions condemnatory of the despatches received from the Secretary of State on the postal set vie. ia which it is threatened to charge a high rate on lettors nddressi'd to this colony, whereas the Imperial Government would have no claim a_'ains.f this colony, seeing that the other colou-cs would pay the tnoiety of the contract cost, were carried by an immense majority, there being only two dissentients. The resolutions also recommended the acceptance of the tender for the present, and, in the meantime, the Government should endeavour to obtain the co-opera-tion of the neighbouring colonies to break down the monopoly of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, by getting a colonial company to perform the service. In reply to a question, the hon. the Treasurer stated that Adelaide not bei;:g a sovereign state, and the British Parliament ha\ing moved an address of condolence to Mrs Lincoln (which was supposed to include all England's dependencies), the Gsvcrnment did not intend to move an address on the subject of President Lincoln's assassination. Friday, 2Sth July. There was a scene in the Supreme Court this morning between the Judges Boothby and Gwynne, on an application for a mandamus by Daly, which was refused on grounds of their previous decision that no local courts existed. The judges also denied the existence of the local courts of appeal. The Chief Justice upheld the existence of the courts (?) and his decision drew very strong and offensive remarks from Mr Justice Gwynne. The annual steeplechase has been fixed for 7th September. The "Rev. W. Taylor, from California, is preaching nightly to crowded audiences. On the first day for receiving applications for shares in the Adelaide Life Assurance Company, 0,000 £5 shares were applied for. Saturday, 29th July. The Sou'h Australian will sail for Melbourne on Thursday. By this opportunity Friths Derby Day will be sent to Melbourne. It is to go back to England in the steamship London, next September. A meeting of E. J. Spence's creditors ■was held to-da}% but was adjourned. According to a statement supplied to the meeting, his liabilities amount to from L 16,000 to L 17,000, and his assets to L3OOO. Monday, 31st July. The papers are full of news of the Northern Territory expedition. They are unanimous in their opinion that Mr Finnis ought to be recalled. The official despatches are anxiously looked for. Moonta shares are selling at Ll7l. Wheat is quiet. There have been sales at 8s lid, 8s lHd, and 9s, at the Port. Country brands of flour have been sold at Ll9 10s. Town Hour at L2O. A letter has been received here from a well-known gentleman, resident at Murchison, in which he contradicts the previously reported discovery of gold in the Grey Ranges, but he reports the discovery of a copper mine in the Barrier Ranges — a claim in which has been taken from the Few South Wales Government. The ore shows a high percentage of copper. Townsend's pressed hay was sold to-day at L 6 5s to L 6 103 per ton, and Californian oats at 4s.