AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 86, 14 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Bbisbane, April 12. The population ©f the Colony is 354,000. New Zealand cheese, fnciory mads, 7d to 7£d. Some print* lots were recently forced on tbe market and sold »t a he«vy lots. New Zealand bacon, lOd. Adelaide, April 12. Nothing is doing in brsftdstuffs and prioei are unchanged linoe the last a notation*. Stdnbt, April 12. H.M.S. Diamond leaves hers for Noumea to-morrow to witness the formal «vaouation of tk« N«w Hsbridos. New Zealand potatoes are 60s to 655; ■Warnambool potatoes 60s to 555; onions 70s. Feed oats 2s 3d to 2s id, seed oats' 2s to 2s 3d; bran 8d to B^d; pollard 9Jd; Cape barley 3s; English barley 4« 6d. Butter is steady at 8d to lOd; oheese 3d to id, loaf size sd; bacon. 9d to 9£d; hama Is to Is o£d. Maize, new orop, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; fowl wheat 2a 7d to 2s 9d. MkIboUENE, April 13. Extensive irrigation works are projected in tbe Wimmera distriot to cost £215,000. Breadßtuffa are easier— Good wheat 3s sd, medium 3s 4d ; fl«nr, roller made, £8 15a ; oats, 2s lid ; barley, mfclting, 5s 2d ; maize quiat; bran, lid ; sugars, £20 to £21. Newcastle, April 14. Arrived—Barque Sophia R. LuUrs, from Wellington. Mblboubne, April 14. The offioial statistics give the yield of Wheat as 10-81 bushels, Oats 22-02 bushels, Potatoes 4'll tons, Hay I*4l tons. From the 13th Deoenaher last to the 12th of April there have been one thousand and seventy oases of typhoid faver in the city; two hundred and tbiriyfive ended fatally. As a result of the destruction of the Coffee Palace at Baliarat by fire, and the lack of life savia g applianoes, the Melbourne fire authorities have ordered immediate in« speotion of tnV Melbourne Coffee Palaces.