The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

SU MM ART OF L A TEST COLONIAL
INTELLIGENCE.

(From Mews. 8. W. Bil.7er it.oo's Circular, Published

Monthly)

Vtoroeta, September, 1886.—A nugget weig'xing
upwards of 78 ounce., recently form tin Sandy creek,
sold for F3lO 12.. Gold exported from the colony thin
year to 20.1 t. 1.313.230 ounces, inoluding 257,148 ounces
from Nee Zealand. Custom.' revenue ',diarisd at the
port of Melbourne for week endqur 220 d, £22.078.
Imports this year to 22nd. 1.9 9144524. Export*,
41,550,259. The Intersolonial Exhibtoon at Melbounte
to be opmed on the 11th October, the whole available
space taken up. A new gas company proposed for
Ballarat. The entranen o Opp' Land Lakes again
opemsd. nn two stations in the Western District it is
said 150,030 kangaroos have been killed within the I.st
few years. A dam for service. reservoir to be constructed
at Sandhurat, to coat £lO 000. Several hundred mint.ra
bad arrived at Myers' Flat, near Seadhunt. A now
lead discovery near lAndsbonnigh. Crops progreating
sati.factorily, and some wheat already brought in.
Immigration during July, 2.482. Emigration, 1,47:4:
Total revenue of Government Railways for August,
£48.278. 1300 bushels Chilitut wheat sold on 21st at
4.'. 81. to 44. 104.

800111 A OSTIALIAL, September, 1866,—The question
of the drainage of Adelaide occupying mush attention.
Corn market dull; Is. Id. refused for wheat. The
Agent• General in London inst., acted to purchase health.
loading rifles forth. Colony. Harvest prpepeots continue
favourable. Government land sales to the 20th, 181,68
arms% reatilslng 2283,516. Tel graphic oconmanic.tion
opened with Wentworth, New south Wales, on the 11th.
Imports at Port Adelaide to the 22nd £1,999,578 ;
exports, CL26111,323. The cereal exports this year to
22nd, valued at £530,1113. Immigration to 22nd, 5,286;
emigration. 2.754. 1111Cinler and his Party hare
returned, and narrowly escaped with their lives throutib
the tropical rains; they hews accomplished little in
regard to ezploration ; the accounts of the settlement
aro not encouraging.

New Sou= WALLS, September, 1966. —A select
committee appointed to report upon the ensetion i 1 a
railway from Echoes to Ileniligoin. Toe Western
&cod brought In 3,993 one. gold last week 0,14
imptirMd into Mint for coinage. week ending 21e5,
20,297 ozs., and win issued, £54,000. Considerable
stooks of breed stuff. held in Sydney. A bill to authorise
the puniahment ni drunkards has been passed by the
Fourteen intentioned int. the Ills-
warn' diettid. The oonirtruction of the telegraph I,ne
between Yam and Burrows proceeding satisfactorily ;
tot.l lensth 3/1 miles. Active preparations for the Paris
Eshibition continue throughout the Colony: the mineral
vinatimens ILTO °speeded to form an important (Nitta .
L.nibing proceeding most 'adds.:tory ; it Is anticipated
the return will average 93 per cent. 321,526 awes of
land under g 1 cultivetioo. Cotton is more grown
than hi.herto • about 175 serve produce,' lset year
20.0 2 1b.., ad 1,277 acres ea vineyards ermine. d
161,298 galls. wine. The Colon) enntains 294,567
homes, 1.924,119 horned cattle, end 8,271,520 &twee.
0.44 1.-cowed by Escort eight months ending August,
149 514 ose.

QOUSSL4III), September, 186& —Parliament met on
New dation propcend to be levl.l. and exieting
one. ineremed. A lam rodustion iatenped to be effected
In Government Expenditure. Crotiodile Creek Digginp
ielding well. A great scarcity of leboue.
TIMIA, lA, September, 186& —Government offer to
guarantee 6 per cent, to any Company l•ffiltit • titi•V•
cable aorois the Straits. Parliament prorogued to
tot November.

New Zeman', September, 188&—Coesequent upon
the snecesatal laying of the Cook's Streik Cable, Govern.
ment have decided to earry the wires through to
Auckland Ma Napier, Moir in a short time the esteem.
South and North dubs in communication. 300 °unmet
of gold, the prods's* of • fortnight's eruahing at the
Kapanga Company's Claim. Coromandel, recently
brought into Anettland. • survey of the wart °mt4 of
the Middle Wand, recommended by the Marine Board.
Tbe quantity of WAngsrei coal produced daring the
put month has been greater, and the quality better
than hitherto. Stamp duties to be imposed. A mall
stream of Kerosene discovered at Wareham& Gold
exports to 30th June, £10,506,068. A bridge to be
'meted it Wanganui across the river. Wellington.—
Business during Me month moderately Italy.. A com-
pany formed with a capital of £lO,OOO for lighting the
City with pa. Christelburch.—Gold-fielda reports eon-
tines encomeging ; several hundred. of diggers have
arrived from Melbourne. Tbe gold import inereestog
rapidly; for year ending July 30 it was from Hokitika,
£1,444,401 ; and from Grey month for half year, £277,455.
Hawke Bay. - A petition ha. been presented by the
settlers at Poverty Bay for musket' to to this province.

Anosenes Oonisosaenon. & pt. 11166. —R'""k"
—Government Mod of Gnat deseription sold at
10.1. per ears; this department I. mildly rising, and
the number of English settlers WO, on the in.:ream.
A brisk basing** le carried on daily at lb. Public Land
Odle. ; and it is said if the &mend continue as at
present, in 6 years not a league will be left aneeld.
The River hien& are ordered to be surveyed fo=
Twe new imbibe imbeds to be ereeted. Wash
nub wanind.

eourt anb fashionable intilligrnce.

A RIIMOUI was current in London on Thursday
night to the effrot that the Prince of Wales had coot
.rith . serious accident at Kt. Prtersburg. The country
will learn with unbounded satialaction that the rumour
was unfounded.

inlthreaMuloacerear.a,Dfawlya:l—.7"lThleetrrirnicesarm DelPrabrags, the
bride of the Grand Duke Alexander, receives • rich
itowtv, nit from her father, as in usual in ordinary
',milks. bee from her boahsn4 an 4 her father-iu
Maunder IL By Art. 8 of the treaty signed on the
sth Octob..e. the Grand Duke &retires to his conaort-1.
A MVO of 50,000 silver rouble. (411 r. eael) as morfiescalw
nr wedding present. 2. A mum of 100,000 •ilver rrinblee
given by the Emperor. The capital of the above 150,000
roubles is to he invaded in the Rumian Fonda, and the
interest to be paid to the !pieces.. 3. Annual allowance
of 50,060 roubles aa pin money. The maintenance of
the new grand duchess'e household will besides be cop.
ported by the Tmperial treasury. Should the princess
become a widow, her jaintore is aced at 85 000 roubles a
year with a maiden,e suitable to her rank, and her court
to be continued at the chards of the State. Should, how.
"err, she then quit Kumla, the sum would be reduced
by one half. The jointure would likewiee cease in case
lof • second merriest.. Even in that eventuality the
princess would maintain possession of 'whatever property
I .he may bare acqiiind personalir and independently of
her husband. am well as the norpeogabt and the interest
of the 100.000 roubles preeented by the Emperor.
Lestly, the princess can only dispose by will of the
inorgeagabe in the event of there existing no children by
her emit husband. By.. note delivered before the sign.
log of the eontrant, and which is enoexed to that
I document, the Danish plenipotentiary engages in the
' name of his sovereign to teke the necessary steps to
nbtian from the Parliament of Copenhagen a aunt of
60,000 risaliillars lsfr. 50c. each) for the dowry and
troumeau of the princes.. That was the form adopted
on the merriage of the Priories. Alezendra with the
Pilot. of Wale..."