COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1687, 22 November 1861, Page 5

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SYDNEY. By the brig Louis k fyfiriam, we have received our usual files of Sydneypapprs, '." up to the Ist inst. „ The ship Henry Femie, with His Excellenoy Colonel Gore Brown e/Mrs: t Browne and suite, arrived at Sydney , on ' the 16th ultimo, after a boisterous pas- r sage of 14 days. , H.M.S. Cordelia, from Auckland the 17th ult.,, arrived, at Sydney on the 31sti She experienced very fine weather on the passage, and had called at Sydney, pre- ' vious to proceeding to England. : ' ' The ste_amer Kenabla, from Otagb, arrived at Sydney on the 20lh ult., with . 7,000 ounces of gold and 24 passengers. : : The Sydney Herald says— About thirty : passengers have arrived by the Kerabla, ! some few being disappointed, but the majority heaving with them from one to ten lbs. of gold each, and twq Germanshave . sixteen pounds weight of gold between! them, the produce of four weeks' labour; It was intended we are informed, to work the diggings at Gabriel's Gully over^ [ again. The Provincial Hotel at Dunediu ■ had been sold for £8000 to Mr. £ Jones, of Melbourne. Frontagesto the prinoipal streets were letting at £10 per foot per annum. The Government Finanoial Statement 1 had been submitted to Parliament, and' ; the revenue would meet the ordinary (expenditure, The gold duty was not to bo abolished. ■ The brig John Omerod, from Adelaide bound to Sydney, with a cargo of flour, capsized off Cape Northumberland, and ? sunk. Five of the crew were lost and three saved. . The s.s. Rangitira from Otago, arrived ' at Sydney on the 25th ult., with the 1 intelligence of the arrival of the Gold Escort at Dunedih with. 16,000 ounces. ] The news had caused considerable ex- , oitement amongst the miners. The brig Gazelle, Staffordi sailed from Newcastle for Otago N.Z., with seven passengers, on the 22nd ult. Cargo — 280 tons coal, 230 bushels maize, 1 ton 1 hams, 60 tierces beef, 6 owt. seed oats, 1 -> case cheese, 28 bales hay.