AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[reuteb's telegrams.] THE QUEENSLAND AGENT-GENE-RALSHIP. Brisbane, April 18. The Hon. J. F. Garrick has teen appointed to succeed Mr. Thomas Archer, Agent-General for Queensland in liondon. The Postmaster-General-ship, which thereby becomes vacant) has not as yet been filled. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF VICTORIA. Melbourne, April 18. ; The Hon. • Sir William Foster Stawell, Ohie£ Justice of Victoria," ■will administer the Government until the arrival of Sir Henry Loch, who has been appointed to succeed the Marquis of Normanby.

THE RAILWAY COLLISION IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, April 18. The official inquiry into the recent disastrous railway collision, near Little River Station, opened to-day. The evidence taken was of a formal nature. THE MARQUIS AND MARCHIONESS OF NORMANBY. - Melbourne, April 18. The Marquis arid Marchioness of Normanby and suite leave to-day by the Orient steamship Liguria : for Sydney. They proceed thence by the outgoing American mail steamer.; SYDNEY MARKET. Sydney, April 18. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, is 3s 9d; New Zealand oats, 2s lOd; maize, 5s 9d j and the Sugar Company's No. 1. pieces, per ton, £34. ATVRT. ATDF! MA'R'K'TR'.'P. > Adelaide, April 18. Wheat is 3s lOd to 3s lid. /.The market is dull and prices weak . and unsettled. Flour: Town brands are £9 10s, country brands, £8 103. Quotations are nominal. Freights to London, steamer, are 355, to 40s. The market is dull and nothing'is doing. THE FRENCH MAIL SERVICE. • Adelaide, April 18. Arrived, tfyisafternoon: Messageries* Maritimes Company's steamship Caledonien, from-Marseilles on March 12. THE TE ANAU. i Sydney, April 18. ( Sailed,; this evening : , ,The ITnion steamship ,Te Anauj for New Zealand.- 1