INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 668, 14 November 1867, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Latest bt Electric Telegraph. (PBO3C THE HELBOUEITB PAPERS.) SYDNEY. Saturday, November 2. Captain Blair, of the ship Sylphide, ha 9 been remanded for eight days by the magistrates of Brisbane, on the charge of running away with the ship and her cargo. Mr Landsborough, writing from Sweer's Island, reports that gold had been discovered on the Leichardt RiverBuffaloes were reported as plentiful there. Sailed.— City of Adelaide, for Mel- . bourne. 41 ■»••• Monday, November 4. Advices from New Caledonia report the massacre of six French settlers and five South Sea Islanders, by the natives of Ponebo. Fourteen others were wounded. All the French war vessels at Noumea and the garrison had been sent to avenge ■ the murders. H.M.S. Brisk was at Fiji, awaiting the result of the King's attempt to capture Mr Baker's murderers. The weather here is intensely hot. Messrs. Bradley, Lamb and Co. sold the entire cargo of the Hesperus, at the following rates : — Fine crystals, L3B 10s ; Sey and finest counters, L 35 10s to 17 2s Gd ; yellow, L 32 to L 34 ss ; brown, L 25 15stoL30. Messrs. Farmer and Painter's premises were robbed on Saturday night, and silks to the value of LSOO were stolen. Brandies are firmer, owing to the mail advices. Tuesday, November 5. The Assembly has postponed all important business, pending the result of Mr M'Leay's motion condemnatory of the ad valorem duties. At auction, a portion of the Meteor's teas brought as follows : — Chests, Lo 15s ; boxes, 21s 6d. Figures dressed in the uniform of Guy Fawkes, to represent the Ministry, were placed in front of the Assembly to-day. The Ulawarra Steam Company's dividend is 2s 6d per share. The aboriginals are playing a cricket match at Woollongong. They play the Paramatta match on Saturday. A committee ha 3 been appointed to provide a free banquet to the poor during the Prince's visit. His Royal Highness will be the Governor's guest during his stay here. New York advices report that the Jenny Berteaux, Emile, and R. Busteed, for Melbourne, took 201,840 gal. of kerosene, and 500,331 lb., 20 hhd., and 83 packages of tobacco. Xulla, for Sydney, hag 96,570 lb. of tobacco, and 34,195 gal. of kerosene. The weather continues extraordinarily hot. Telegrams from the Northern districts repost that the crops are dying from the want of moisture. The sentences passed on Mary Williams and Hannah Short — mother and daughter — for child murder, have been commuted to imprisonment for life and ten years' imprisonment respectively. Wednesday, Nov. G.~ The first day's rifle matches have passed off successfully. There was fine weather and good shooting. A student of Newington College, named Graham, was killed by a blow from a cricket ball yesterday. The Colonial Secretary has convened an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Education, to consider the charges brought by the Catholic body against the Council. Blue Cap; the bushranger, was captured unresistingly yesterday, near Young. In the Wollongong' cricket match, the aboriginals, in their first innings, made ~~ eighty-six, and the Wollongong men y twenty-seven. the Legislative Assembly to-day, there was no quorum. Mr Maclcajs motion stands over. A monster meeting of Roman Catholics was held last night, the archbishop presiding. It was decided to form an assoJft* wft?* '"' sugar haTC bom Arrived.— Jason and La Hoinifi fmm London; and Silas Fish, from^ Yori? Th j> latter brings 5200 cases of kerosene and 1341 packages of tobacco. Kerosene '