AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume IV, Issue 488, 23 May 1864, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

P_B GBETIL—E AND BIBD (itEUTER'S AGEVTS.) Sydney, May 5. The balance of the cargo of new rice, ex Madras, was sold privately to-day, at £18 2s. 6d. per ton. Prime cattle are selling at £3 per head. The sale of draught ale is checked. Bottled beer is scarce. Robins' brandy in bulk, realises 75.; champagne vineyard, 7s. 6d.; and MarteU's, Bs. 9d. The candle market is glutted. Rum is quoted to-day at 3s. to 'Is. 6d. Blasting powder is held for Is., with much inquiry. Holders of sugars evince a disposition to realise. Flour is in demand for pressing wants only. At ttie public, wool sales held to-dayvbuyers were not anxious to purchase. Scoured sold for _s. 2d.; greasy showed no alteration on last quotations. Light, clean, fine washed fleece brought Is. 9d. Sailed —Mundane, for Callao. Sydney, May 7. Business is exceedingly languid. Importations from Melbourne continually depress the market. Ale, candles, flour, geneva, rice, salt, sugar, tobacco, and brandy, barley, maintain former rates; whilst at forced sales, they have gone considerably lower. Sydney, May 9. - By arrivals from Adelaide yesterday. 1,2fi0 bags of flour and 3,981 bags of wheat reached this port. The Kate Kearney, from the South Sea Islands, reports the capsizing of an American lumber ship, supposed to be the All Serene, off Kadawa, one of the Fiji Islands It is reported that thirty lives were lost. The All Serene is over due here. Sydney, May 10. The arrival of the New Zealand mail has caused some considerable excitement. Orders for goods are much more limited than usual. The price of flour is being forced up by speculators, as consumers here are full. Trade is bad ,with money hard to get. It is not likely high prices will rule this season. Tiie tightness of money effectually checks speculation, and there are bat few in a position to hold large stocks. Arrived Lord Ashley, from Auckland. Sydney, May 11th. From our Californian files we learn that the Mary and Edith had sailed from San Francisco for Sydney. She has on board 6,980 bags of oats, 2,910 bags ef wheat, and 200 half-casks of flour. Sailed—Kate, for Auckland. Newcastle, May 10th. Arrived —Adelaide Bell, from Auckland. Captain Barnes reports that the captain of the Constance, arrived at that port from California, refused £1,000 to re-land his cargo of breadstufl's at San Francisco. This sum was offered on account of the failure of the crops. Ho also reports that all sorts of breadstufis were so scarce at Auckland before the arrival of the Const—ace, that the captains of the Adelaide Bell, Aleeta, and A. W. Stevens, an American ship, gave all their spare breadstufl's to the army contractors to prevent worse consequences. Adalaide, May 9.

Four Miners, passengers by the Cobrong, refuse an engagement from the Wallaroo Copper Mining Company, stating that, prior to their leaving Melbourne, they were assured that the strike had ended.

Small sales of wheat have been made to-day at 8s 6d.

The extraordinay price of 9s 9d for wheat delivered in town has been offered for a parcel of 9,000 bushels for immediate delivery.

Flour is quoted at £23 10s to £26 per ton. The Coorong is advertised to sail on Tuesday, and the Pcnola on Wednesday. sj^sArrived.—Kate Swantoh and Eose of Australia, from Newcastle; Mary Smith, from Woolongong; and Pcnola and Coorong, from Melbourne.