LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 600, 30 December 1869, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

{BY ELMTEIC TELEGRAPH.) (feom oub own coheespondent.) The Bleep, Tuesday. The s.s. Omeo arrived at 10.30 a.m. from Melbourne, with the mails from England. She made a remarkably quick passage of four days and fifteen hours. She left Hobson's Bay at 7.40 p.m. on the 23rd. Her passengers are: Saloon—Mr Sutherland, Mr Barwell, Mr W. H. Millett, Mr Wilkinson, Mr M'Donald Master, Gr. Mullen, Mr J. Symons, Mr Jack; steerage 33.

The import markets are dull, Home advices monopolising atttention. Flour is moved off in small lots at £ll 10s to £l2. Wheat, best, 5s 3d. Maize, heavy, 3s 4d. Oats in good trade demand at 3*s Bd. Sugars inactive. Teas steady, and in fair demand. Hops wanted ; stocks low. New York advices report kerosene one (dollar) and one half cent. Mail advices report increased imports, consisting of the season's soft goods. Cornsaeks have reached 12s. Holnes' sardines scarce; sales at 20s. Blood's stout 9s 6d. New Zealand flax, best samples, £33. Arrived—l.O., schooner, mouth. Black Hawk, from Lyttelton. Davies, mining manager at Ballarat, has had his sentence reduced to one month.

The Council and Assembly are at variance respecting the Land Bill.

Higginbotham's Colonial independence Resolutions have been carried. A nugget worth three thousand pounds sterling has been found at Berlin.

Captain Norman formerly, of the warsteamer Victoria, has died in England. A Walter Douglas, evangelist, formerly of Auckland, has been summoned to the police-court in Hobart Town for inciting a breach of the peace in a church.

It is proposed to present Dr Halford with a testimonial for discovering antidote to snake poison. The Victorian Woollen Cloth Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent. A man named Eyley has murdered a man named Welsh in the Ovens district.

A Sydney ship, the Morceau, is reported to have been wrecked at New Caledonia.

The Plying Squadron sail on Monday. The officers have been greatly feted. They attended a picnic at Clontarf on the 22ud.

Thunderbolt, the bushranger, has resumed stickinpj-up at Armidale. Mr Tegg has been committed for trial for killing two Chinamen.

Archbishop Polding has returned by the mail-steamer, in consequence of ill-health.

At Adelaide the weather has been intensely hot shade. Much harm has been done to the crops. The loss is estimated at four bushels per acre. Sugars ex Plying Cloud brought reduced prices. Country flour £lO 15s. Wheat 4s 6d.