AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2929, 15 August 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[Beo tee’s Aubncv.] The Te AnauMelbourne, August 14. The necessary repairs to the steamer To Anau having been completed, she will leave Melbourne to-morrow for the Bluff. Sir Henry ParkesThe banquet which has been organised to welcome Sir Henry Parkes, who arrived here from Europe by the steamship John Elder last evening, will take place to-morrow (Tuesday). ShippingThe Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’Association report under date London, August 12, the arrival of the ships Anazi, from Napier (left April 29); Eiectra, from Timaru left (April 20). Arrived, last evening—Orient steamer John Elder, from Plymouth. Bank BobberyInformation is to hand that a robbery has been committed at the branch of the Colonial Bank of Australasia at Beedy Creek, but no particulars are yet to band. Lateb. It has been ascertained that the sum of £IOOO in notes and cash was stolen from tbs branch of the Colonial Bank of Australasia at Beedy Creek, but no trace of the robbers has yet been discovered. Shipping. Sydney, August 14. Arrived, H.M.S. Nelson. Underwriting.

A Sydney Lloyds’ Underwriters’ Assooiation has been formed here. New CompanyThe local business of Goldsbrongh and Co., Hoffnun and Co, and Eowan and Co., are being formed into a company. s ShippingArrived, last evening—Union Company’s steamship Bingarooma, from Auckland. # WreckNews has reached here that the labor schooner Jo (sic) has become a total wreck on Marion Beef, Queensland. All on board were saved. Fire. A destructive fire occurred this morning at BorthwicL’s oil shop, 28 George street. The place was completely gutted, but the fire was prevented from spreading to the adjoining premises. The insurances amount to £36,000.