AUSTRALIAN. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
Melbourne, 16th May. A new company is forming to resuscitate tho Provincial Suburban Bauk, to protect the old shareholders. Sydney, 16th May. The names of the new Australian cricketing team are the following : — Messrs Bannermau (2), Blaekham, Boyle, Horan, Massie, Murdoch, Evans, Spofforth, Garrett, and Alexander. '"? 'The Merchant Shipping Underwriters' Association i-eport, under date London, 13th April, the ship Jessie Readman has arrived from the Bluff. Quotations for Hennessy's brandy are : Case, 32* 6d to 333; quarters, 9s f to 93 3d ; kerosene te selling at Is 7*d tois 8d ; Patna rice, £21 ; New Zealand wti#at, 4s 6d ; New Zealand oats, 3s ; tobacco ( Raven's twist), Is 6d ; candles, 7sd to B£. The price of sugar is unchanged. Adelaide flour is quoted here at £11 per ton. The value of wheat is Unchanged. 17th May. This season's yield of wheat for Victoria amounts to 5,750,000 bushels, showing a decrease as compared with 1878 of 1,302,792 'bußhels, although there has been a substantial increase in tbe acreage.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 512, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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168AUSTRALIAN. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 512, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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