INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6093, 20 August 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

(Reuters Special.)

Melbourne, August 19th. Jlr E. J. Hagg, accountant of the Lands Department, who was ai rested on the 12th inst. on a charge of forgery, and subsequently liberated, haa been rearrested on suspicion of an attempt to abscond.

Wheat, 5s per bushel. The tone of the market is firm. Town flour, £11 15s ; country brands, £11. Froights to London—steamers, 45s ; ditto sailing, 42s Gd. Bkisbane, August 18th. The estimates of revenue and expendituro of thia Colony for the present year give tho revenue at £1,900,000, and the expenditure, including interest on loana, at £1,835,000.

Sydney, August 19th. Hennessy's brandy—case, 30a Gd ; bulk (qrs.), 12a Gd. Patna rico, £21 15s per ton. Sugar, Company's JNo. 1 pieces. £35 per ton.

Now Zealand wheat haa advanced to 5s Id per bushel ; New Zealand oats are unchanged at 2s 9d per bushel.

Adelaide, August 10kh. Tho Orient Company's steamship Lusitania, which left London on July sth, arrived here this morning. «. The following messages are from tho Mcl bourne papers to hand by the Ruxjarooma at the Bluff :— (Special to Aqf..) The anti-Jewiah riots at Jastrow, in Western Prussia, were pu: down with much difficulty. l'he_ clergyman (Rabbi Scheliing), who was ■fnciatiug in the synagogue when it was Backed, "ah dangerously maltreated.

A growing foeling of dissatisfaction with the exiting Freotrade policy of England ia being tnauifested, especially in the manufacturing .iistrict3. An active agitation has beeu set on loot, and throughout the country Protectionist literature ia being distributed broadcast A Urge public meeting has been held in London nt Exeter Hall, where speeches were delivered orote»ting against the maintenance of the I 1 reetrade policy established by Mr Cobden as one now unraited to the position of Great liiitain in view of the pravalence of Proteciiinial principles in other countries. Tue rleath ia announced of Dr Tanner, tht Sew York physician, who last year fulfilled a •lell-imposed task of fasting for 40 days. Hi. raedical attendants state that there is no donb: that the strain to the syatem cansed by thi'long abstinence from food hastened his deatb. A highly interesting exhibition, llhwtn»tin>s the development of electricity and all its most modern applications, has linen opened in Paris ouder the supervision of boeus of the leading French ecientista. Some moat wonderful ia veutions are exhibited, the novelty of which ha« attracted universal attention. A great landslip h»s takeu place in Virginia, U.S., causing very considerable destruction of property. Seven negroes were lulled, Much dissatisfaction exists among the sailors employed at the port of London, who complain of the low rate of wsgea and other grievaucss A strike is threatened unlow Ihtir demands h rc .icctded to by the liaipmaslers. Duruis; *ii h past day or two the Bailors, in order to dra^ public attention to their case, have inarched ir. (.roceasion in larga nouibera tnrongh the etreete of London