INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume IX, Issue 549, 22 March 1876, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Sydney, March 14. Judge Cheeke is dead. . Heniiessy.'s -case brandy is firmer. Sales have been made at 29s 9d. , , . H^M.S. Pearl sails , for Auckland, hn Saturday. Victoria combines with this Cqlony to send . a team of, riflemen to Philadelphia, and it • is suggested that two "New Zealand representatives should be selected. , . . , , Sydney, March 14 Nearly immigFants arrived at Somerset yesterday, and 500 Chinese at Cook town from Hong Kong. , A steamer, supposed to be the, Durham, from, iLondoo, passed Cape.Obway yesterday! I ', ' „ „; . March 16.,; • T-he Government carried the second reading of the Education Bill by, t a majority of four. A sctjne ensued and the galleries had to be closed. , Syduey, Marcli if . Heavy jrain is, falling. .Probably thp droughts breaking, up., , /Palmer advices repot t the discovery of new gold fields, sixty miles from Cooktown, .richer.. than anything ye.t discovered. V , . I „M elbourne, March 16.. , . It is stated that Mr Hugh be^kwell, ft well-k.nawn. land agent, largely conr pected with, building societies,, is in His liabilities are said to he LBO>OOQ, but it is thought thjit his Assets when realised will more than cover thali amount. . .. . „ lMelboukne", March 17. . The steamer Durham has , arrived, after a passage of fifty-eight days. All well. ... „