Australian

Southland Times, Issue 12490, 5 January 1893, Page 2

Australian

SYDNEY, Jan. 4.

Fully 500 of the unemployed have been drafted from Broken Hill into South Australia at a cost to the Government of LlOOO. A fierce southerly gale is raging. A boat was swamped on the Parramatta river and two men, named Atkinson and Dempsey, drowned. A man named Everard has been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the outrage on the woman Morrison. The prisoner created a sensation a few years ago by assaulting women. Wheat—Chick, 2s 9d to 2s lid; milling (nominal), 3s 6d. Flour (New Zealand), L 8 8s to L 8 10s. Oats—Bright feed, 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Barley—Cape, 3s 4d to 3s 6d. Bran, 8M to 9d; pollard, 9d to lOd. Potatoes — Victorian earlies, L 3 15s; blueskins, L 5. Onions, L 5 5s to L 5 10s. Butter Dairy, 7d to 8d ; factory, 8d to 9d. CheesePrime, sd. Bacon—New Zealand prime, 8 Jjd; hams, ll|d to Is. MELBOURNE, Jan. 4. Business is restricted in new wheat at 3s 2d ; old, 3s 54d. Flour, L 7 10s to L 8 15s. Oats—Algerian, Is 6d; Danish, Is lid; stout, 2s Id. Maize, 3s Id. Bran, 8d ; pollard; 9d, Cheese—New Zealand, 5d to 5Jd, in bond, BRISBANE, Jan- 4. The revenue returns show the financial position of Queensland to be improving. The receipts for the half year exceeded the estimate by L 194.000, and a surplus is now confidently expected on the year’s transactions. HOBART, Jan. 4. The revenue returns exhibit a decrease L 94,000 compared with those of JB9l,