MELBOURNE via Dunedin, Monday.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2783, 12 January 1869, Page 3

MELBOURNE via Dunedin, Monday.

The 5.6. Omeo arrived at the Bluff early this morning from Melbourne. The Victorian Derby was won by Mydrara ; the Port Philip Stakes by Barb, G-lencoe Becond. On the sth January, M'Meckan, Blackwood & Co. bonght the Tararua, Rangitoto, and Claud Hamilton. The Governor of Tasmania is now in Melbourne, and with the Governor of Victoria visited the Theatre Royal last night. The house was crammed. The weather is very hot and dry ; hut the crops are a good average yield, Nine vessels are chartered, and others wanted to load wheat at Adelaide for London. § I Sergeant Cleary has arrested Butherford, the bushranger, after a desperate fight. Cleary shot Rutherford's horse, and then dismounted and chased him two days on foot through the bush. Captain Ferguson has been appointed to the command of the e.s. Tnrarua, and Capt Hagley of the Rangitoto. The Captain of the Claud Hamilton has not yet been appointed. The Otago sails for Japan. The Tararua leaves Melbourne on the 15th for the Bluff, and the Gothenburg on the 27th for New Zealand ports. The Tararua is being overhauled. The Mataura proceeds to London via Wellington and the Straits of Magellan, and not via Melbourne, as previously advertised. The market quotations are flour, £12 10s ; fine ■wheat, ss ; oats, in better favor, a parcel of 8000 bushels brought 3s 8d j baga, Is ; cornsaeks, in trade parcels, worth 16s ; sugars, firm at the advance recontly established.