AUSTRALIAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6440, 3 December 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN

COMMERCIAL.

DEFEAT OF MR E. A. BAKER.

FIVE MORE CASES OF SMALLPOX AT SYDNEY.

Sydney, December 2,

Hennessy’s case brandy, 345; Hennessy’s quarters, 13s fid. Kerosene— Diamond, Is 2d; Devoe’s, Is 3d. Sugar— Company’s No. I, £35. Candles—D. R. J. ’s 7Jd, D.R.O.’a 7id. The election for the seat for Carooar in the Legislative Assembly, rendered vacant by the expulsion of Mr E. A. Baker, took place to-day and resulted in the return of Mr G. Campbell by a majority of 150 over the late member, who was a candidate for re-election.

Fresh cases of smallpox have been reported to-day. Five children in one house in Woolloomooloo are now down with the disease.

LATEST, — I,SS a. m.

THE WESTPORT COAL CO,

THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS. Adelaide, December 2. Wheat is quoted at 4s 9d to 4s Hd. Town flour is worth £ll Iss, and country brands £lO 17s fid. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide 52s fid, and from outports 555. A large number of shares in the Westport Coal Company have been taken up here.

Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association:—London, Nov. 30. Arrived: Ship Loch Ness, at Dunkirk, from Lyttelton (August 31); Crusader, from Port Chalmers, at London (September 15)

Sydney, December 2. A cricket match, between the English team and Twenty-two of Bathurst was commenced to-day. The Englishman in their first innings scored 115, and at the close of the day’s play the Twenty-two had fifteen wickets down for 43 runs.