AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7007, 2 May 1884, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

.DEATH PROM SMALL-POX. Brisbane, May 1. The British and India Company's' steamship Alinora, from London via' the East Indies, reports that one death from small-pox occurred during the voyage, but no further cases have since occurred. - THE N.Z.L. & M. AGENCY COMPANY. Sydney, May 1. The New Zealand-Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have secured a handsome warehouse in Brisbanestreet for their wool business. - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP. Adelaide, May 1. The statistics published yesterday by the Chamber of. Commerce,. regarding , the quantity of wheat available for export,-were officially supplied. The official returns also show that the South Australian , area.under, wheat has been. 845,000 acres, yielding 14,600,000 bushels, or an average, of 17;27 per acre. . THE* ADELAIDE-WAIRARAPA CASE; . ..Melbourne, May 1. The application of Captain Lockyer, of the steamship Adelaide, for a. mandamus, to prohibit the "Victorian Navigation Board from enforcing the suspension of his certificate, was heard .today, but was ultimately refused. It is" probable that Captain .Lockyer will appeal against the decision of the Court.' THEHAUROTO. %' :~ Sydney, May 1. Arrived: The Union s.s. Hauroto, from Wellington. : ••' ■-■' r