AUSTRALIAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3757, 26 August 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN QUEENSLAND. BKISBANE, thiiday. Tho Queonslaud Government has aocepted tho tender of Messrs O'Horke and McShnrry, for the construction of a railway line to Mount Eak, a distance of 19 inilup. The amount of tender is £42,200. ADELAIDE, this day, Wheat unchanged at 7s. Market quiet, and with little doiog; town flour, £14 15s ; country brands, £14. Handy iion vessels are now being enquired fur for the Cape. SIX H. PARKES VICTORIOUS. SYDNEY, August 25. The debate on the addrcss-in-roply to the t'-Jnvcrnor's epench was concluded this evenin"! The address was voted on a division by a majority of 48. MELBOURNE, August 25. Messrs C. G. Ross and Co., of this city, report sales of kauri pine, ex Estollo, at the following average prices per 100 feet :— Superior sawn Hitches, 17s 6d; sawn boards, one inch,l6s 3d; ditto, 1J x 3 inch, 19a 6d; dressed ditto, |inch, 23s Cd; ditto, §inch, 21s per 100 feet lineal; tongued and grooved Mooring, 4 by 1{; 9s 3d ; ditto, 4 by IJ, 8s 9d, The market is weakening. COMMERCIAL. SYDNEY, August 25. New Zealand wheat haa declined Id during the week, and is now quoted at 5s 3d, New Zealand oals are uncounted at 3s 4d. Maize is quoted at 5s Id, an advance of Id. The Spgar Co.'s No. 1 pieces per toil are quoted at 355.