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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 198, 5 July 1860, Page 1

On Sale, QQQ SHINGLES, (good quality.) * BEATEN & WOON Feb. 16, 1860. Notice. JJpISON is laid for DOGS on- my ground. THOS. HIGGIE.. Wanganui, May 24, 1860. WEEKLY COMMUNICATION WITH* WELLINGTON. The fast‘sailing. Schooners Sea Gull’ and 1 Tyne WILL be laid on as Regular Traders bo* tween IFanganui and Wellington. Good accommodation for Passengers*. . For: Freight' or Passage apply to " TAYLOR, WATT, & Co.December 15, 1859.

Notice To Subscribers'to ihe> Wellington Independent. THE Proprietors of the above mentioned Paper have transferred the TTanganui Agency to Mr. Ireson Jones, and the under* signed request that all Parties, wishing to settle their Accounts or become Subscribers, will please communicate with Mr. Jones. TAYLOR, WATT &XO., Wanganui, June 21, 1860. *.

5 QUEENSLAND. (From; the Correspondent of the Sydney [ Herald.) “Brisbane,. 17th May.—The elections are t over,* and the electors are certainly entitled to be complimented both for the order and decorum with which they have. conducted themselves tiirougout tlie trying period, and also, upon the whole, for the choise of representatives which they have made. “ The Parliament is to meet on Tuesday ■ next, and the Assembly will proceed atonce • the election of a speaker. . i “At a; receßt land sale,- the Maryborough . and. Wide-Bay Cotton Growing Association -* I purchased 265 acres whereon to commence * operations. Probably no locality is better [ calculated to determine the great question of f . successful cotton growing in Queensland than , that selected. The alluvial soil on the banksof all the northern rivers is very fertile, and - that .on the Mary particularly .so. As-enabling;, strangers to form an idea of the present value of property in. the city of Brisbane, I may mention that the Bank of Australasia directors have purchased a frontage ■ of 70 feet to Queen street (the principal street) >. by a depth of 182 feet to Edward street, for JSI4OO. The allotment on the ‘opposite side of the street is under offer to the Union Bank for a like amount. It is understood that the Bank of Australasia will very soon commence * building on their allotment. In the meantime they have taken premises in Queen street, next-' to the Victoria Hotel, and opposite the Legislative Chambers, where they will conduct their business for the present. Aydney mill flour is , selling, at Brisbane at £27 10s, but foreign - is quoted below that figure. Corn is quoted at 4s. per bushel, with abundant local supplies. Small parcels of new potatoes are coming in, and are selling at <£l4 per ton; old, from £lO to £l4* Considerable supplies of this article are still arriving from Sydney. The foliow--ing. sales are reported: 920 ewes, .aged, afcs 8s 6d; .saddle horses, ~£l3 to <£2s ; draught f ditto at an average of <£3o; 100 bullocks, at: I>4 ssloo ditto at.<£4.; maize at 4s 6d per. bushel.

An English Idea of, Queensland.—- At a < 1 meeting at the London Mansion-house on behalf} of the new bishopric of Brisbane, the speech of the bishop designate presents in a rather novel. and amusing light the right reverend gentle--man’s idea of the ssene of his future neighbours and of Australian affairs generally. We quote from the Morning Staar of 27th Janurary—- “ The Bishop of Brisbane, in seconding the resolution laid before the meetings detail of the spiritual requirement of his see, and of the plan of action which he set before himself, in regard riot only to the English settlers, but to the aporigina! inhabitants and the cooliapopnlation. With respect to the English, a, large proportion of them were the decendants of convicts,, who had been left by the govern? merit which punished them without the meansof spiritual consolation ; and as regarded the natives and the coolies, he was determined that nothing like slavery should exist among those of them intrusted to his ecclesiastical care, and he was sure he would be fully seconded by the other Australian bishops, one of whom, the Bishop of Perth had been his friend in childhood, having been in fact his-, school fellow.