THE VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 16 February 1883, Page 2

THE VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

REMAND OF CLARK. THE NEW ZEALAND ABSCONDER. REVIEW OF Till-: AUSTRALIAN WOOL MARKET. PROBABLE COLLAPSE OF THE STRIKE TN THE COAL TRADE. DEATH OF THE EN-KING OF THE FIJI ISLANDS. MELBOURNE. Thursday. The nominations for the general election were made this morning, and the following candidates were declared elected without opposition for their respective constituen-cies:--Benamara, Mr P. B. Wallace : East Bourkc. Mr E. Harper : Brighton, Mr T. Bent : Dundas Mr C. M. Officer : Evelyn, Mr E. 11. Cameron ; Cippsland South, Mr F. C. Mason ; Kilmore, Mr T. Hunt : Kyretmvn, Mr C. Young : Maldon, Mr J. Melntyre ; Mornington, Mr J. Gibb ; Portland, Mr H. J. Wrixon. There now remain IGG candidates for 75 seats, the polling for which takes place on the 22nd instant. Mr Murray opposes Mr Francis and Mr Williams, and Mr Service and Mr Patterson will contest the seat for Castlemaine with Mr Williams. In his speech this morning, Mr Wrixon announced that he favoured the formation of a Coalition Ministry composed of the best men from every party in the House. George Clark, who was arrested last night by the police on a charge of the embezzlement of the Vincent (New Zealand) County Council funds, was brought up at the Police Court to-day and remanded for a week.

Messrs Goldsboro' and Co. (limited) issued their annual review of the past wool season to-day. They report that during the season the following quantities have been sold: —Of Victorian wools 150,000 bales, a decrease as compared with last year of 2000, which is attributed to the period of drought from which the colony lias suffered : of New South Wales wools 85,000, aud of South Australian 3-1,000, making a total of 275,000 bales, which is slightly above the total of last year's sales. The prices realised for rough cross-breds and heavy merinos during the sales were irregular, and closed at Id to lid below the prices at the opening of the season. Messrs Goldsboro' express their opinion that, if a reaction sbould set in among manufacturers in favor of English bright hair, some classes of colonial avools -will suffer heavily, and they therefore advise groAvers to breed pure merinos of a class specially adapted to the Australian climate. The Continental trade has been a marked feature of the season, the exports to AntAverp alone amounting to 15,750 bales, and altogether 28,000 bales have been sold for transmission to the Continent. These facts Messrs Goldsboro' consider to be indications of a large prospective trade in avool between the Australian colonies and the Continent. In the American trade the demand has been less than was expected, and only 5800 bales Avcro sold here for the American markets, including a quantity shipped from Sydney. The total exported to the Ncav World is, however, 8300 bales. The crop is expected to be considerably below the average, and it is impossible to form a reliable estimate at the present time. The quantity hitherto exported is as folloAvs ; —Victoria, 250,000 bales : NeAv South Wales, 101,000 ; South Australia, 109,000; Queensland, 240,000, showing a decrease as compared Avith last year of 40,750 bales. In conclusion Messrs Goldsboro' declare that everything points to the Australias as the great wool market of the future.

This day. Mr J. L. Dow has been elected for Kara Kara without opposition. The lumpers engaged in the coal trade have declined to join the carters avlio have gone out on strike, and it is expected that the movement will collapse.