LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Star (Christchurch), 14 May 1868, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[BY INTER-PROVIKCr^L TELEOTLLPH.] llie l Albnrabra arrived afc tho Bluff oil May 12, and brings four daya later 1 Australian news. .: Tho Melbourne datoa are to May 6. Mills for manufacturing printing ink have besn published. Parliauumt met on May 0. Mp , Sladen'a now Ministry was not formed, and tho Houao adjourued to the following day. A crowd hooted tho Hon. J. Fawkuer on leaving tho House, A divorce has boon granted in the case of Knorr v Knorr— tho co-re* spondent, Northoote, of New Zealand, ; ' boing oast in, eo^te. • SiWritoge haa been nttompted in, Sfc, - fc rancia churcb. Keroaino shale has besu diacoyered iv (^ipp'a IJaud, Tho Q<wonsland Stoam -NavigaUoa Compan> f> fl fitoaraora bavo been, hmfad over to tho AaafcraJiau 9te«(tt jHfoyjsm. tiD» Cowpaay. Tho IfAl»Ral Bcink has jWte4 a pev annuro^ wjld a bumn at XU 2d per - ThdM^boucflo "Bank na» declare <Vivtdond of 10 nor cent. r Fivo hundred yards of clota havo boon manufactured ftfc Geelong. Itam9d<m't} paper railla aro at work. Tho fitcamcr Clnronco burat her boiler at Sydney Heads. A lottor has boon received at the Post-oiHce addreaaed to "Jamea Do Pontiua," who was murdered in, 1806 at iluungatapu. Tho Prince Alfred Hospital fund ia slowly increasing. The Southern" Cross has arrived from Maryborough, Queensland. The Gytnpio Creok diggings are overpopulatod. Numbers are leaving, and groat distress prevails. No employment is obtainable. Flour is quoted at £21 5a per ton. SfDNET, May 5. Macdonald, inanoffer of thii-Cdm- *- morcial Bauk at Dubbo, hi» b€ea;i; ai'rcrtted on a chargo of embezzlement, fJudge Chooko'a atud hi-v, bean * ofierod by lottery. A row«rd of £100 has boon ottered ~ for tho anprohonaion of the maa who • ohot at Mr Gray at Kaiou, ' Mr Parkea, Colonial Secretary, has > iJ^EOMfeted at Goulbourn. ( |||||fe >^ttimgHFor recent racing beta ia f^Wpiafactory, there being several alSiflhteea. Mr Tait won £1000. Johnson, tho bushranger, has been [captured, ■„> Tho schoouor Clara !Robins was wrecked on one of the South Sea Islands. Tho Golden City haa arrived from London, aftor a long passage. Plouro. pneumonia has broken out. [l)Y WEST COAST TELEGRAPH] Hokitika, May 13, 4.15 p.m. Tho Criminal soasions opened to* day. Judgo Richmond's charge was vory elaborate on tho law of riot and seditious libel. With tho oiception. of the political trials, which wul begin on Friday, and a chargo of murder against Douglas, a minor, the calendar ia very light. The Judgo complimented the County on tho decreaso. of ordinary crimo. Tho official poll afc Okarita, for a member for Wetland South, gives Mr BarlT a majority on tho whole poll Tho Egmont ha3|iflf^p 'frm • Sydney, but tho nver -ateSmft nwsbd :' tho channel and had to Jpjitto 9§*,m eonßequonco of fog. NoiSeWis^lawS- '.-'J fore, to bo had. Tho steamor Nelson, which was on shore, w«i successfully launched without injury, * / [BY SUBMARINE !TEI,BQnA,?K,3 ■\Vnr,r,iNOTOK, May 13, 7.55 p.m. Major Richardson haa sailed flouth, to ruaticato till tho Asaembljr meeta. Tho Hon. John Hall I*9 Acting as Trea» Hurer. Archdeacon Hadfield has applied for a re-hearing of tho late Manawatu land caso. Mr Williwn?, the Natiyea' counaol, boa, refund, to advocate any moro case« Jefgre the Jndges composing the present Court. .