INTERCOLONIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 7472, 16 March 1888, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

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CRICKET,

Sydney, March 15.

(Received March 16, JBBB, at 1.50 p.m.)

A. Bannerman and Midwinter have joined the Australian team, who leave for England on Saturday. In the matches this season in Australia, Shrewsbury's batting average was 58 ; W. W. Read comes next with an average of 55. The bowling averages were —Lohmann and Attewell, ten runs per wicket; Briggs and Turner, thirteen per wicket. Lillywhite's team lost two matches; Vernon's team one.

INTRODUCTION OF SMALLPOX,

Sydney, March 15,

The s.s. Moyne, from Shanghai and Hongkong, arrived with one Chinese passenger suffering from the worst form of smallpox, and with four convalescents. The vessel has been quarantined.

THE BULLI DISASTER. Sydney, March lfy

An obelisk in memory of the victims of the Bulli Colliery accident will be unveiled on the 23rd inst., the anniversary of the disaster.

AID TO THE CROFTERS.

Brisbane, March 15,

A fund in aid of the crofters has been raised in this city, and now amounts to LSOO.

THE CHINESE CRUSADE.

Hobart, March 15,

The Premier has received a despatch from the Secretary for the Colonies enclosing a memorandum from the Chinese Ambassador in London protesting against tho exceptionally stringent legislation proposed by some of the colcmies against the Chinese. The memorandum urges that the action ci these colonies is opposed to treaty obligations l>etwer<n England and Chjna.

A CARTRIDGE FACTORY FOR MELBOURNE. Melbourne, March 15. The Government have offered a site for a cartridge factory near Melbourne to an English firm.

COMMERCIAL. (Received March 16,1888, at 2.40 p.m )

Sydney, March 16,

Wheat is firm at 3s to 3s 8d for milling sorts; fowls'feed, 2s 8d; oats, 2s to 2s 3d: feed kinds, 2s 2d; Cape barley, 2s 10s to 3s (there is no English barley in the market); potatoes, L 3 5s to L 3 10s; onions, L 3 10s ; chafT, L 3 10s to L 4 15s; peas, 4s for blue (boiling) and 3s Gd for feeding sorts; bran is scarce (New Zealand), 7s • pollard (New Zealand), 8d; haras active at Is to Is Id; bacon, 9£d ; factory butter, from 7d to Is. Adelaide, March 16. The grain market is quiet, and prices are unchanged.

Melbourne, Mareh 16,

Wheat is brisk at 3s s£d; flour, L 7 10s; malting barley, 5s fid ; Cape, 3s ; maize, 3s 6d.

The average barley yield is estimated at twenty-three bushels to the acre.

Advices from Mauritius to March 1 state that heavy rains have been experienced}. It is estimated that the sugar crop will yield 130,000 tons, of which 73,000 tons have already been shipped. Vessels for cargoes continue scarce, and none are loading.