Englisli &c Foreign.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1661, 19 August 1873, Page 4

Englisli &c Foreign.

ia B|d b§£ it' k b'ohi . fea^ltiWri jM.ifiSfif! inquired ibr'j I&5 b&iffli have bee'iij plaitedit MA ' per lb, duty paid., firandon'd candle hate been quitted at ll^d. 1500 oases Devoe'skerosene hare been placed at Is Bd. Of hops, some 60 pockets bid Kent have been cleared off at a low figure. Sales of Hcnnessy's brandies are mentioned at 27b 3d. Sydney, August 9. Several murdfirs are reported in country districts. Parliament opens to-night. Great fiscal ohanges are proposed. The yield of gold has decreased by 15,000 ounces. Eich tin ore has been discovered at Oooma. Two men have been committed for trial for flogging an aboriginal. The racehorse Lecturer has been sold for £600. lhe whaler Robert Towns has been lost at St. Bartholomew's Island, in the South Seas. Thirty of the crew have reached Brisbane, but five were lost. The vessel was insured for £2000 in the Sydney Marine Office, and £2000 in the General Insuranoe Company. Adelaide, August 9. Mr Downer, Commissioner of Insolvency, has been appointed a Judge, for the Northern Territory at a salary of £2000 per annum. Mr. Reynolds has been offered the Residentship, but his decision is not known. The crushing from the Princess Louise olaim, in the Northern Territory, is the richest ever seen. An anti-immigration sooiety has sprung up, and meetings are being held in the country districts. The orushing of 361b of quartz from Winn'i mine yielded at the rate of 90oz» to the ton. A subsoription has been started for the widow of Captain Wittacombe, who was reoently murdered. Fifty thousand tons of potatoes are expected to be produced this season at Gambierton. The total rainfall of this year has exoeededthe average of the last 34 years. -^-^ —- —— ._jrAo^»*toir-eeOTeTnainßeeii wrecked near Port Lincoln. The crew were saved. Telegrams from Yam Creek state that rtuggetty alluvial gold has been found on the Port Darwin claims, two feet from the surface. A splendid leader has been struck in Neate's claim. Proceedings have been initiated against the Hayilah Mining Company, Northern Territory, for not giving the shareholders property described in the prospectus. The Agricultural Society has dtoided to offer a prize of £500 for the best invention for reducing labor in cleaning wheat. Wheat, 5s 9d. HobaetTown, August 9. The new Ministry is composed of the following gentlemen:—Mr. Kennerlty,Premier, without office; Mr. Chapman, Chief Seoretary; Mr. Fysh, Treasurer; Mr. Giblin, Attorney-General; Mr. Moore, Minister of Lands. This is considered a strong Government. The Colonial Seoretary, Attorney-General, and the Treasurer have been returned unopposed. : Fiji (ma Sydney). Cakabaa has returned to Levuka without subduing the mountaineers. Another effort is being made to start a bank by the Government. They will give a2O years' monopoly. New Caledonia (via Sydney). Seventeen hundred more Communists have arrived.