AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 898, 29 September 1866, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

I From the Sydney ■M6fn(rij(\HerdU;)'^ 19. The Assembly passed tho additional Customs Bill, tho only alteration being ad Valorem dutiqs fixed at seven and a half per cent: ;. exemption being the same as' Sydney, with addition3:bf : machihery, fencihgfwire, steamers, and sailing vessels.' The Customs .closed . to-day pending the passage of the bilk The Assemblv passed resolutions for Stamp. Duties, and the Issue of Treasury Notes, Bills, wiis read a firßt time, and the second reading fixed for .Friday next. Mrlbournk; September 18. Messrs. Greig and Murray sold by tp.Tday_ at their rooms, Collins-street, 1.0.Q0p bushels 6f Chilian wheat, at from ss, 3d. tr "s.. per bushel,. I At auction to-day, Ualifbrniah barley, has sold at 3a. 6d. per bushel, i.ni Adelaide flour at .£l4. 6s...per tori. Messrs. Fraser and Co. sold by auction to-day, at their rooms, Collirs-Btreot, ;660p; bags Mauritius sugars, ex Silver Cloud, at;.prices fully sustaining rates obtained at previous sales; September 19. His Excellency the Governor is to be entertained to-night by the members of the Melbourne Club, Business quiet. Breadstuffs very dull. Eight hundred bags sugar* yellow crystals, sold from £33 to £35 10s. One hundred and fifty cases hams and bacon clair's) sold to arrive on private termss Dunphy's stout is selling, at 9si One thousand cases kerosene sold'in parcels at 3s. Five thousand bushels barley wero sold at-Ss. 9d., and there have been transactions at even a less rate. Three hundred and eleven Winchester's American chairs wero sold at from 5 to 20 pbr cent, on invoice price. Two thousand cases whiiky wore disposed of at ■ low figures. At a meeting of tho Mclbournooreditors of Messrs. Drynnn and Co. two trustees were ajppoiiite lure, to act with the Sydney tru^o.es. Aukivbd— Fgan, from Lauritius. Adelaide, September 19 The marriage of Miss Younghusband to Mr. D. Q. Daly, son of tho Governor, was celebrated to-day. The Agent-General of this colony in London has been ordored to purchase breech-loading rifles. _ Tho first Horticultural. Bhow is to. take, place in the Town Hall to-morrow. Sugar has been sold by auction at lower rates. Wheat has a downward tendency; small sales are reported at .Os. lid. There has since been a reduction to si. 3d. Flour is quoted at£l3 to £1110s. bran, Is. sd. Tho decision of the ifarino Board in the case of tho late accident blames tho pilot, and cancels his liconse.— Sydney Herald.