ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3457, 14 August 1868, Page 3

ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Stdnet, July 29. The latest Californian advices report the ' Japan ' and ' Belvidere ' loading breadstuffs for Sydney. About 2,200 tons of bread&tuffs had been purchased or shipped for Australia. These purchases caused a ri-e in the market. The ' Chelsea ' takes a cargo of lumber to Melbourne, and nob breadstuffs, as was expected. A portion of the cargo of Bourbon sugars has been sold here by auction, at a decline of fully £1 per ton. Mr. Duncan, collector of Customs, has been suspended. His suspension will coutinue until the return of the Premier from Victoria. A rumour that Dr. Blaud had become a Roman Catholic has been contradicted. Breadstuffs are lower. Sales o£ Californian flour have been made at £15. New York advice3 report that the ' Belle Creole' and 'Adeli* Carltoo' had sailed for Melbourne, with 515,1571b. of tobacco. 773,400 feet of lumber, 74,200 (gallons 'of kerosine, 1,500 cases of maizena, and sundries. The • Triton ' and ' Baymar ' were loading. The total of the kerosine shipments to the colonies up to May was 22,749,722 gailous. The market was active, standard white was quoted afc 30 cents to 31 cents.

Melbourne, July 30. Earl Belmore and suite drove through the city today accompanied by Sir J. Manners Sutton ; they visited the Parliament Houses and the Post-office, inspecting everything minutely. Their Excellencies dine at the Melbourne Club to-night. The Melbourne Corporation have purchased a beautifully-mounted ostrich egg, the first laid in Victoria, for presentation to Mr. Austin, of Barwon Park, in recognition of. his services in the cause of acclimatisation. Benjamin, an insolvent, has been arrested at the instance of Ray, Palmer, and Co., for obtaining goods under false pretencesLater news from the Cape of Good Hope states that the diggings there have got some good prospects on the new goldfielda. Mauritius news to the 18th June has been received; the markets are fiimer. Flour is dull; 300 tons have been sold at £17 to £17 10*.

Adelaide, June 30. The Government have discovered that the writs issued for the first batch of elections to the new Parliament are illegal. The steamer 'Coorong' yesterday took over 100 paiaengers for Gympie. General business is very dull. There are more inquiries for wheat, but no transactions to report.