AUSTRALIAN

New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 22

AUSTRALIAN

(reuter’s telegrams.l Adelaide, June 10. The trial of Mr Lyall, late manager of the Commercial Bank of South Australia at Yankalilla, for alleged robbery of a large sum of notes from the Bank in March last, was concluded to.day, when, after hearing the evidence, the prisoner was acquitted. Melbourne, June 10. The local manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), reports on the Melbourne market as follows : Shipping wheat is quieter than last week, 5s 4d to 5s 5d per bushel malting barley, quiet, at 3s 9d to 4s 3d; New Zealand feed oats are improving in value, 3s to 3s 4d ; milling sorts are in good demand ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 6d to 2s Sd per bushel. Melbourne, June 13. Mr Henry Henty, of the firm of James Henty and Co., has filed a shedule of bankruptcy in his separate estate. His liabilities are set down at L 150,000, while his assets amount to LI6O (sic). The libel actions brought against the Melbourne Argus, Age, and Daily Telegraph, bv the Messrs Henty have been settled out of Court. Sydney, June 13. Good rains have been experienced in the Northern districts. New Zealand weat, 4s 3d per bushel; New Zealand oats, 2s Gd ; maize, per 561 b, 3s 6d; Sugar Company’s No. 1, L 25 per ton ; pollard, Is 6d per bushel; potatoes, 6-5 s per ton. Sailed, this evening—Union Company’s s.s. Waihora, for New Zealand. Melbourne, June 11. The Most Reverend James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop of Melbourne, died to-day. Adelaide, June 11. Arrived, this morning R.M.S. Sorata, from London, and Messageries s.s. Salazie, from Marseilles. The following items of Mauritius commercial intellgence are taken from. Messrs Ireland, Fraser, and Company’s monthly circular, dated May 28, to hand per s.s. Salazie.—The weather since last advice has been unfavorable for harvest operations. The season’s sugar crop is estimated to yield from 100,000 to HO,OOO tons. The month’s engagements for New Zealand are: Christchurch, 300 tons, and Dunedin, 200 tons. Freights to Australia, are quoted at 15s to 17s, and to New Zealand 255. Exchange, sixty days on New Zealand, II per cent. ; Australia, 124 per cent. The stock of sugar on hand at the present time is 22,000 tons, and the season’s demands for New Zealand have been 6000 tons. Melbourne, Juno 13. Arrived, this morning R.M.S. Sorata, from London. Sydney, June 14. Arrived—-Union Company’s s.s. Hauroto, from Wellington, on Friday afternoon last. In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the taxation proposals of the Government were affirmed in Committee of Ways and Means, and the Bills necessary to give effect to them will be introduced and dealt with in the Assembly without-delay. Melbourne, June 14. A banquet was given to-night to Mr Murray Smith, the late Agent-General for Victoria. The attendance numbered SCO. Albany, June 14. Arrived—Peninsular and Oriental Company’s R.M.S. Shannon, with English mails to May 14. Sydney, June 15. The Directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society have decided to abandon the proposed opening in London, and have re-called Mr •Black, the actuary, who went Home to organise a- branch. Heavy rain is falling in Sydney and over many parts of the country. Melbourne, Juue 15. At the banquet last -night, an enthusiastic reception was accorded to Mr Murray Smith. In Ins speech, in

reply to the toast of his health, he expressed himself confident; that New South Wales would, before long, join in the Australasian federation. Ho described the existence of the penal settlement in New Caledonia as a scandal and disgrace to Frauce, but stated that he believed that country was showing signs o£ an awakening conscience in regard to the transportation of criminals to the Pacific. Sydney, June 15.

Captain Webber, of the Ly-ee-Moon, which vessel was recently wrecked at the Green Cape, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The third officer, Mr Eotheringham, was discharged from custody at the request of the Crown Prosecutor. In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier, Sir Patrick Jennings, stated that the alleged railway frauds were nothing like the amount reported. He added that the staff were engaged working night and day to ascertain, the number and amount 'of the frauds. The Premier further announced that all persons concerned would be prosecuted. Medbotjene, June 15. The funeral of Archbishop Goold took place to-day. The obsequies were of a most imposing character, and the Cathedral was crowded with spectators. The local manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) reports on the Melbourne market as follows : Shipping wheat is in less demand, and occasionally easier, 5s 3d to 5s 4d per bushel is the ruling price ; malting barley is quiet at 3s 6d to 4s 3d ; New Zealand oats, feed sorts, are in fair demand, at 3s to 3s 4d; milling descriptions are firm, at 3s 4d to 3s 6d ; New Zealand oafs, under bond, 2s 6d to 2s Sd per bushel. (Psr B,p. Tarawera at the Bluff.) (united press association.! Sidney, June 7. The Governor received an important despatch from E. Layard, Acting Consul at Noumea, informing him of the departure of the man-of-war Dives for New Hebrides, it is said with the intention of hoisting the Drench fiag. The despatch reads :—“ Sfco has taken a body of Drench troops on board, and three months’ provisions for them. The Government made large purchases of timber and corrugated iron, and the artillery workshops are working night and day making barracks for the soldiers, which are to be conveyed to the island by the steam transport Magellan tomorrow. The secret was well kept until the departure of the steamer for Sydney. No vessel was allowed to leave the harbor by a general order of the Acting Governor. It was openly rumored this was done specially to prevent me getting to the islands first, and hoisting the English The New Caledonian Government received a cablegram from France, and the Dives was put in fighting trim before leaving, as the German gunboat Albatross was in the New Hebrides. The two entrances to the harbor were watched by armed boats all night with the same intent, and I have other reasons for believing that my house was watched by spies for at least two nights, until the French vessel was three miles cutside tne harbor, X have lived here ten years, and know the Post Office too well to entrust it with anything important.”