LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2630, 1 February 1868, Page 5

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

. (FBOM OTJB OWN COBBESEONDBNT.) Dunedin, Friday, 8 p.m. Loiters from Bishop Jenner Rtate his determination to come to the Otago meeting of Ofcago Rural Deanery. A Board meeting was held, and a resolution proposed that his arrival would he disastrous to the Church, but there was a majority of three against it. Two hundred immigrants arrived in Dunedin hy the E. P. Bouverie and Warrior Queen. Upwards of five hundred song birds have been received by the Warrior Queen in fine condition. A man has been found drowned at the Eattray street Jetty. He has been recognised as a seaman, but his name is unknown. The husband of the woman Geddes, who was murdered at the mouth of the Tuapeka, has been committed for trial. His Honor the Superintendent is on a visit to the Tuapeka and the surrounding goldfields, and has been most enthusiastically 'received. The population of Dunedin and its suburbs, according to the census returns recently taken, is 19,000. Messrs Pyke, Mouatt, and Hughes, with delegates, have been appointed Commissioners to revise the mining regulations. By the Gothenburg, which has arrived from Melbourne, we hear that the news of the wreck of the General Grant caused great excitement in Melbourne. The Argus advocates sending a steamer in search of the missing men. The Argus also advocates that Australia should take possession of the Fiji Islands. The wool ship Salween, from Brisbane, bound to London, has put into Sydney harbor on fire. Prince Alfred's reception afc Sydney has been quite equal to that given him at Melbourne. Business in Melbourne is dull.