[BEUTER'S TELEGRAPH.] ADELAID, 22nd April.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 23 April 1881, Page 2

[BEUTER'S TELEGRAPH.] ADELAID, 22nd April.

Wheat 4s 4d to 4s sd ; town flour, .£lO 5s to .£lO 10a ; country brands, .£9 7s 6d to -39 10a. Freights to London, steamers, 455 ; ditto sailing, 40s. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide, 42s 6d ; ditto from out ports, 455. Melboubne, 22nd April. Mauritius advices to the Bth instant report that the engagements of sugar amount to 425 tons for Adelaide, 1100 for Melbourne, and 450 for other ports. The tone of the market is unchanged. Sydney, 22nd April. The following are the acceptances for the A.J.C. Plate, to be run for to-morrow : — Progress, Wellington, Sapphire, Martindale, Good Morning, Orient,'Bichmond, Canary. Arrived, yesterday — Union Company's steamship Hero, from New Zealand. Sailed — H.M.S. Wolverene, and Union Company's steamship Hero, for New Zealand. Communications are passing between Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier and Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, and the Governor of Hongkong, relativo to the present Chinese rush to the colony. Most of the new arrivals are going to the tin mines. - - Brisbane, This Day. The steamer Brisbane has arrived at Cook-town-from. Hong' Kong, with 350 Chinese. One is suffering from small-pox, and the vesssel haa therefore been quarantined. Mr.' M*llwraith, the Premier, telegraphs from London that he has come to an agreement for a company to carry out tho,transcontinental railway scheme, subject ¦to surveys confirming the representations whicn^ave been made. A surveying expedition will leaivV LoridoVf or Queensland in" the middle of May.