ADELAIDE.
Monday, October 8. It is reported that the Hon. H. B. T. Strangways is about to join a Avellknown legal firm.
Heavy rains prevailed yesterday throughout the country.
The results of the election for the vacancies in the Council are not yet finally known.
The English neAvs, via Batavia, has had a^good effect commercially.
The corn market shoAVS no alteration. Wheat, 4s 8d to 4s fid in town. There is a moderate cle- •■»ud for export. t 'Supplies are limited Flour is very dull — Lll 10s to LI 2 10s. Wednesday, October 10. Mr Reynolds has tabled a motion of want of confidence in the Ministry, for Friday next-. The annual agricultural shoAv takes place to-morrow. Parliament has consequently adjourned till Friday.
Government has promised to announce a policy in respect to the northern territory in tAvo or three days. In Mr M'Kinlay's report he speaks highly of Cliff Head, Anson Bay, and strongly blames the conduct of Mr Manton, the acting Government resident. A call of the Assembly has been made for Friday, to consider the Constitution Act Amendment Bill.
The corn market remains A r ery dull. Very little wheat is coming forward ; its price is 4s- 9d in toAvn. Flour, Lll 10s to LI 2 10s ; nothing* doing Lady Daly was taken seriously ill yesterday cA T ening, and up to this evening she is no better.
Hitchen, the second great billiard player of England, is coming out to Melbourne next month to settle there.
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West Coast Times, Issue 334, 18 October 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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249ADELAIDE. West Coast Times, Issue 334, 18 October 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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