INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 636, 8 October 1867, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

1 i (Latest ut E&ectbic Tklegraph.) j (yaqjf thb Melbourne papers.) SYDNEY. Wednesday, Sept. 18. G_o;jrernment intends to introduce a municipalities bill in a fortnight. The Assembly has resumed the railway extension debate, and negatived the motion in re Moore- . The markets, are quiet. Sales of Manilla ration sugar have been made at £25. Griffin nas been sentenced to death for the Jindin murders. Murphy's conviction is likely to be quashed, owing- to mis-trial. The floods in the Mumunbidgee district are subsiding. The Queensland Parliament re-asseni-bled jpe_§terday. • The. Cape Clear, froni Liverpool^is off Kainja. Thursday, Sept. 19. A large still has been seized in. Woolloomooloo, andtEe proprietor Sited LIOO, with the alternative of a year's imprisonment. The judges have granted a rule nisi for quashing Murphy's conviction for the South Creek murder, on the grounds that ! the jury were allowed to read the daily | papers and to converse with the public Sailv. - The wool sales have been very small. The escorts have brought down 3,4000 ounces of gold. Friday, Sept. 20. GoT^rnment hao carried a motion for going into committee on the proposed railway loan. The Federal Council Bill has been passed by the Council, slightly amended. All the teas ex Hans received here ' brought L 6 3s to* L 6 12s. Congous ex Shelbourne, L6ss6d to L 6 15s. The Froom's cargo will be sold to-morrow. ! A large majority of the members of the I Assembly intend to voto for a loan of one j million only for railway purposes. Hides and tallow at the sales to-day were steady. Three pounds per ton of freight was offered here to-day for a large ship to load breadstuff's at Adelaide. The offer was refused. The Assembly is discussing the second j reading of the bill repealing Chinese Immigration Act. Saturday, Sept. 21. HiekeT goes by the November Panama mail to pull . for the championship of England. The Barb, Fireworks, Falcon, Warwick, and Glencoe left to-day, by the { City of Melbourne, for Adelaide. Nicholls, sentenced to death for the murder at Deniiiquin, has been reprieved. A commutation of his sentence i 3 probable At the sale of the Fronim's teas little was done. Prices were below those of yesterday. j The Government has appointed a com- i mission to enquire into the Sydney water supply. Exchange on London has been reduced to one per cent.