INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 11

INTERCOLONIAL.

(Reuxeb's Special.) Melbourne, August 18th. Oats are quoted to-day at 3s 6d per bushel.

Mr David Gaunson, the late member for Ararat, hw iflßued. a writ against

the Federal Australian for libel. The' damages are laid at £5000.

August 19th. Mr E. J. Hagg, accountant of the Lands Department, who was airested on the 12th inst. on a charge of forgery, and subsequently liberated, has 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. Freights to London—steamers, 45s ; ditto sailing, 42a 6d. August 22nd. Arrived, this morning : P. and 0. Co.'s steamship Bokhara, with the Suez mails, which left London 15th July.

(Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association.)

London, August 20 bh.— Arrived : Ship Mercia, from Timaru (May Ist). Melbourne, August 23rd. The Victorian Government, in view of the great increase of smallpox in Sydney, are now taking further precautionary measures againßt the spread of the disease to this Colony. A prospectuß has been issued inviting subscriptions for shares to the amount of £20,000 in the Moke Creek Copper Company, Lake Wakatipu. Sailed, this afternoon, the Union Company's ateamßhip Rotomahana for the Bluff, Oata are quoted to-day at 3a 4d for feed, and 3s 6d for milling. Subscriptions for shares to the amount of £20,000 in the Moke Creek Copper Company, Wakatipu, New Zealand, were covered on the Melbourne market before 11 o'clock this morning Sydney, August 18th. Mrs Hams, wife of the man Hams who died of smallpox at the Quarantinestation on the 7th inst., is now attacked with the disease, and has been removed into the infected enclosure. Sailed, this afternoon : Union Company's steamship Arawata, for New Zealand. August 19th. Hennessy's brandy— case, 36s 6d ; bulk (qrs.), 12s 6d. Patna rice, £21 15s per ton. Sugar, Company's .No. 1 pieces, £35 per ton. New Zealand wheat has advanced to 5s Id per bushel ; New Zealand oats are unchanged at 2s 9d perbußhel. Sydney, August 23rd. Two further cases of Bmallpox in the city are announced. The sufferers are Margaret Lindsay, residing in Subbox street, and a youth living in a lane off Abercrombia street. A report is current to-day that the Hon. Mr Campbell has made a donation of £10,000 towards the endowment of a new Anglican bishopric On Chong, the Chinese merchant at whose house in George street the first outbreak of smallpox ocourred, has sent in a bill to the Government for £2000 for losses sustained through being placed in quarantine. It ia stated that Doctors Olune and Coffyn also intend, if necessary, to sue the Government for damages sustained through their detention in quarantine. The former gentleman, it is said, will olaim £10,000.

Brisbane, August 18th. The Eight Rev. J. Quinn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, died at half -past 1 this morning. The estimates of revenue and expenditure of this Colony for the present year give the revenue at £1,900,000, and the expenditure, including interest on loans, at £1,835,000.

August 22ad.

The Detached Squadron left here at noon on Saturday last for the Fiji Islands. His Excellency Sir Arthur Kennedy and a large party from Goternment House were present, and witnessed the departure of the Royal Princes. Adelaide, August 19th. The Orient Company's steamship Lusitania, which left London on July sth, arrived here this morning.

August 22nd. Eighty thousand bags (? bushels) of wheat were Bold to-day at 5s 6d. Flour is quoted at £11 10s. There ia a good demand for breadstuff's, but higher prices are asked.