AUSTRALIA

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6931, 17 May 1883, Page 4

AUSTRALIA

[Reuter’s Telegrams.]

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It is reported that heavy defalcations have been disclosed in a Bank at Sandhurst, and that the manager is falcated.

The Argus to-day expresses a hope that the New Zealand Government reconsider it* refusal to join the postal union, and announces that Mr Graham Berry has undertaken to proceed to Wellington, with the object of explaining folly to the Government the advantages of the Union.

IRwwtfttl May 16. it &50juoU The Hon Graham Berry has returned here from Sydney. Shipping wheat is firmer at 5* 2d to 5s 3d ; malting barley, 5s lOd to 6s Id —market weaker. New Zealand oat* are in fair demand; feeding qualifa-*-duty paid, 3s Id to 3a 3d; ditto, under bond, 2s 5d to 2« t>d; milling sor£A under bond, 2a 7d to 2s Sd. Arrived this afternoon—P- and <-• steamship Ballarat with inward mail* vii Brindisi and Suez, dated April e. Rotomahana, s.e., from the Bluff.

SYDNEY. May 16. The celebration of the Congregation* jubilee commenced here to-day. 611 ' delegates from the other Colonies present. The Bev J. Jefferies, th* President, delivered an address of ’ come, to which tho Bev W. Daldy others replied.

HOBART, May 16 A meeting of the Marine Board wa held to-day to consider the circumstances attending the death oi steerage passenger M’Kay on steamer Manapoun, and the bnnai hfa body at sea when the within tight of land. The ’• their decision exonerate Captain v s of the Manaponn.