AUSTRALIAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 562, 11 November 1882, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN.

BEtJTZB’S TELEOBAMB. ; , : • ' r ,ja Sydney, November 8. ■ The trial of William Dunn, who some Mme ago set fire to . Wright’s Bedding Factory, was cioncladed at the Supreme Court to-day. The prisoner was found guilty of hating caused the death of Mrs Wright, .who perished in the flatnes, and was sentenced to death. ADVANCE IN KERpSENE. THE VTCTORIAN LOAN CONVERSION bill. ! SIR JULIUS VOGEL AND, THE , ELECTRIC LIGHT, ’ , Melbourne, November 8. tf A. private telegram has been received here announcing a considerable advance in kerosene in America. • ! It has been ascertained that the value of the contents of the registered mail bag, stolen on Monday night from the Post Office, was £IOO. * The police are still without any due to the perpetrators of the robbery, '-.'.V.V Advertisements ' in the Melbourne papers to-day stating the conditions of tendem for the direct eteaia.servide between New Zealand and England; In the Assehibty last night the Loan Conversion Bill was again under consideration, ’4 ~Much 4 opposition 'was shown to thu measure, but it was Anally read a second time pn^diyisiop.: - V . (Received November 8* 16.i0p.m. :• ; MELROURNEj November B.> ; A Cofnpany has ,betfrf formed here to aoquire from Sir Julius Vogel the-sole right of, ’using the Brush and Lane Fox systems of electric lighting in Victoria. . Sir Julius Vogel has noarly completed arrangements forilluminating the Spencerstreet Bailway Station by the arc light, and is : also making /preparations for the installation of incaudisoent lamps in Elizabeth-street. •:./ Malting is firm at 6s 4d ; shipping wheat is weaker at 5a 6d. The market for New Zealand oats is unsteady. Feeding qualities are worth. 4s to 4s 2d, and milling ditto 4s 4d to 4s 6d. During the week, Messrs Goldsborough and Company, Limited, have sold 8300 bales at their wool auctions. . . The large attendance „of home and foreign buyers coutinues, and prices remain very firm. Greasy wools averaged .from 8d to 14d£, several large clips realising 12*1 to 14d ; washed wools brought from 14d to 26d. .. . ' Albany, November 8. * The P. and O. steamship Eaiser-i-Hind arrived in King George’s Sound to-day -with , the .English mails, via Suez 'and Brindisi, dated London, October 6. "•