AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1153, 17 May 1870, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

','.-. .'\ Melbourne, May 9. Business is /without animation. Flour, £11 ss. Maize, scarce, 4s. 9d. Oats, 3s. 4d. 'W 'W.I 6d.; Wheat, scarce, 4s. 6d. to 4a. ioa: '""-/-'■ ■ Sugars slightly declined ; the Sea Ripple and Queen of the Seas having arrived from Mauritius, and the Roquette from Honolulu. Teas active; chests, 2s. 2d. Candles in demand ; large/ sales at 10^d. Kerosene rising ;6nie parcel brought 2s. 10^d. : Arrived-rOmep, Bth; Alma, from Hokitika.":'j-' .' :■" :'--■ . "... J . ' . ■ The Melbourne Parliament meets tomorrow... The financial statement will be given next week. i-Nft organised opposition against the Ministry is expected. •.; ;, John H. iVickera, arrested in New Zealand,: has been remanded to Ballarafc. A large feting of the National Bank Shareholders has negatived the annual report deolaring no dividend. A motion for a special .meeting was carried, and? the di-rectors-recommended the appointment of a new manager. The losses are variously estimated, at- from £20,000 to £40,000. Mr. B. 'Jkt. Young, pf> South Australia, has been offered the general managership, vice Wrigh^, resigned. . -. : . . . . A public , subscription, amounting to £700, has: been forwarded for the Sydney Flood Fund; 1 ■ y , '*■■ ; Negociatibns towards a union between ihe^rllbytf riaii ' churches are progressing satisfactorily.. ■ ■<_-. . Large sales by auction of Echuca preseryedy aieafcs,_wbich.-fetched fourpence per lb. ■'■$■!'■,/:■'- ~]£"eUy, the bushranger, Power's mate, has been arrested at Benella. Power still continues at large. Johnston has been elected for Geelong. The successful .tenderers for the NorthEastern Railway have not yet been named. Arrived— -Crusader, with 400 immigrants. , . Another prosecution has been com-menced-against Draper under the Trusts Statute.Th© Royal Arcade, Bourke street, has j beenformally opened. The Mayor occupied.the chair at a champagne luncheon. Herman and Dmte, clothiers, have had their stock destroyed by fire. Kef mode, of Alona Vale, Launceston, is dead; Sydneit. Arrived—Auckland, from Auckland. Severe floods have destroyed much property, and several lives hare been lost. Gundagai was l submerged, and Coura almost destroyed. There has been an extensive land slip at Maitland. ' The' Kate Kearney, from Western Australia, has been quarantined, having three cases of small-pox on board. Thirteen men rescued from the Walter Hood have reached Sydney, after great suffering. A large portion of the cargo washed ashore from the wreck has been sold by auction for £95. Five bodies were recovered at Shoalhaven. Thunderbolt 'has resumed his depredations. ..A portion^ of the Massaodile's cavgo of sugars' realised £32 12s. 6d to £37 ss. A man named C. Lanon, a mining engineer, has shot himself. Traffic has been resumed on the railways. Thie^wool sales are quiet. Prices main-tamed^^-^r.^ "' , : TheXpan Bill has been abandoned, because the Council reduced the amount by £300/) pa r , . ; . Parliament was prorogued on the 7th tilt tnel4th June. [ ■Xmve<i?r-:Ann Melhuish, Haversham, from Wellington. . / Arrived jat ; Newcastle— rChristian, from Auckland ; Bengal, from Dunedin ;. Fairy Rock, from Wellington. , <*;,. -.., ,- ■ •: • AdbiiAide. Goodan, injured during the late riots, has accepted £30, compensation. *^The'BUshmaii's Hooie has been completed and formally opened. / „ The .cprn,tnavket is; quiet at sd. 3d. <\Sagarsfirm. ■-.-■. ■ . ■. '•The Ministry have-resigned and Strangways was sent for.