LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 575, 2 November 1869, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (FBOM OUU OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Hokitika, Monday. Melbourne, Oct. 25. The news by the mail is considered highly satisfactory, and trade is brisk. Flour, best, £ls to £l6. New Zealand oats os 3d. Adelaide wheat 7s 3d. Fine Congou teas in demand at Is lOd to 2s. Bourke's stout 9s 9d to 10s. Dried fruit and currants rising in demand. Corn-sacks, at 12s, inquired for. The North Eastern Bail way Construction Bill has been read a second time. The Payment of Members Bill has been read a first time. The second reading comes on to-night. The Victoria Tower, wreck and cargo, has been sold for £6400. The proprietors of " Humbug," the new satirical publication, offer £SO to any spiritualist who reads the contents of a letter in a sealed envelope. Dr Barker has been charged with making improper proposals to a female Hospital patient. Arrived—Magnet, from Greymouth. Oct. 22. The acclimatization of salmon in the Tasmanian rivers is an accomplished fact. Two salmon have been caught in the Derwent. Dupondt, who was convicted of rape at Geolong, has had his death sentence commuted to imprisonment for twentyone years. Twenty-two shearers at Mount Emu narrowly escaped poisoning by eating bread containing arsenic. The captain and crew of the cutter Sperwer, twenty-eight in all, have been murdered by the Natives of Prince of Wales Island. Archibald, found guilty of Halligan's murder at Eockhampton, has been sentenced to death. The Rev. James Martin, the new pastor of Collins street Baptist Church, formerly Taylor's, arrived by the ship Alexander Duthie. Joseph Brown, a clerk in the Post Office, convicted of stealing a letter, has been sentenced to two years' hard labor. The Colonial Bank has declared no dividend, in consequence of the suspension of Hugh Glass. At a stormy meeting of shareholders, the balancesheet was adopted. Capt. Payne, of Nelson, has been appointed a member of the Board of Navigation. Sydney. Ballard and Home have been found guilty of robbing the Braidwood Bank, and have been sentenced to fifteen and ten years respectively. Twenty released Fenians have sailed for California. The Cockatoo Island prisoners have been removed to the gaol. The Warata coalmine have declared a dividend of ten per cent. Maize 4s to 4s 2d. Adelaide. Tho corn market is firmer. Wheat firm at 5s lOd. Milford, editor of Pasjuin, is dead.