AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 893, 24 September 1866, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Mf.lbouknb, Sept. 12. Thkbb is a fair amount of business , doing. In breadstuff* there is no change. tinues selling at £15 for country, and fpr £16 5s 1 town brands. Sixty tons Victorian-made flour sol at private terms. Seventy pockets of hops sold at la 8d to Is- 9d. _ Five hundred cheats new tea ex Charlotte 8 0 ld but the price is not stated ; also 150 cliests ex Ettrick. Thirty bales of woolsucks "were disposed of at 4s, and 100 bules comsacka at V3i. Fift.-on hogsheads MartcU's dark brandy sold at about 6s 3d; Hennessy's case brandy, in. parcelß of 100, at 275. Arrived.—To-day, Clutlia, .from Glasgow; Burgomaster Hoffznanu, from .Rotterdam. September 1-1. The opening of the Sandhurst Kxliibition, yesterday, passed off most successfully ; also, the banquet in flio evening. Tho Governor was well received . One hundred and twelve merino sheep, pure breed, arrived by the Burgomaster Hoffman. Business is not vury brisk. At a public sale of Mauritius sugars, £300 bags woro sold out of SGOO offered. Tho prices were about los advance all round oil last sales. Privately, good brewing crystals were disposed Of at an advance of 34s to 365. Breadstuff's in better request. Of first Adelaide town ilour, fifty tons in parcels fetched £16 ss. jFor transhipment, country brand trade parcels a.t £15." Two thousand four hundred busholg damaged Chilian wheat sold at auction at is Oil, 4.8 Cd, and 553 d, according to condition. Carlisle's bulk aU was quitted at £6 in bond. Tennant's bottled, 9s Gd. 500 cases Byass'is stout at prices rising to 8s 7J. 1200 cases Otard's and Hennessy's brandy sold on private torms. Malt is in considerable request- 90 bales Calcutta sacks sold at. previous quotations. New season teas are still selling freely. Arrivod.—Suffolk, from London. Tho Suffolk spoke tho Loftcomes, from London, bound to Sydney, in latitude 40-49 south, longtitude 130-17 east. Sept. 15. News from Tasmania to 12th instant states thai Parliament there was prorogued to let November with a view to tho dissolution of the Lower House Government defend their policy in a long minute tc the Governor. Little business doing; brcadstuds unaltered Tort M'Donnell wheat is soiling at Gj 9d to 6s 100 hogsheads of li. \V.. P. rum, 30 0.p., sold at 8s 3d. Arrived—Kearsago, from Boston, United Stafcs Off Heads at 1 p.m., Result, ship from London. Adelaide, Sept. 12. The Town Hall narrowly escaped destruction bj fire this morning. Tho lire was fortunately dis covcred in time to prevent any great damage. Corn unaltered. Wheat, (id. Flour dull, a - £13 to £1-1. Bran, Is Sd. The cargo of sugar ex Belle was offered to day, and some three thousand bags sold ; fine white at £37 to £38 10s; yellow crystals, .£3O to £32 <ss. light counters, £2!) to £31. Xht? bidding was languid Arrived. —Penola (s.), from Melbourno. Sailed.—Aldinga (s.), for Melbourne. Sept. 1-1 Weather sultry. Barometer 29 35 and falling. The import market continues depressed, a fev sales effected. Corn market dull. No sales in wheat. An expor , order at 5s Od could not be executed. No changi in Hour. Sept. 1-5. Tho imnual steoplc-cliase Came off to dayLnure first, Hector second. Hack Race;; Highlander first the second horse, Tommy, lost his rider over thi second last fence ; the third horse, Glory, in crossim a fence fell on his huad, and was killed. Bott jockeys are injured. No transactions in tho corn market to-day; prices nominal. Pollard is quoted at Is lid per bushol. Arrivod.—St. Vincent,, from London, Blsty-nini days passage.