AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3411, 2 September 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(I'kr Ei.rctric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Reuter's Agency.) (Received 1.15 p.m., Sept. Ist.) Sydney, Sept. 1. The Government have appointed eight new members to the Legislative Council. Parliament will re-assemhlo for the despatch of business on the Bih September. Arrived last night— Manapotiri, from New Zealand. Hobart, Sept. 1. The trial of the two men, Keefe and Rice, for complicity m the Beaconafield Bank robbery last year, concluded yesterday, when both prisoners were acquitted. I Received 1 a.m., Sopt. 2nd. £ Sydney, Sept. 1. The trial of the two men arrested for tho murder of Constable Hird was concluded to-day, when both prisoners were convicted of manslaughter. Melbourne, Sept. 1. Mr George Augustus Sala will leave Sydney ou Sopt. 3rd for Atickland, at which place ho will first lecluro m New Zealand. (Received 2.1 a.m., Sept. 2nd.) The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports on the local markets as follows : — Produce— Shipping wheat is quiet at 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel ; malting barley, 4s to 4s 6<l, quotations nominal ; New Zealand oats, feed sorts, 2a lOd to 3s ; milling, 3s to 3s Id ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s Id to 2s 3d. Timber— Kauri pine per 100 feet super, hewn logs, 13a ; sawn flitches, 18* 3d ; sawn buards, l.£ to 3 inches, 12a 9d to IGs 3d ; dressed boards, g inch, 22s Gd ; ditto to | inch, 15s 9d ; T and G flooring per 100 feet lineal, 0 x I|, lls Gd ; ditto, G x li, lls 9d ; ditto, G x 1, 10s ; 4 x l'j, 9s 9.1 ; dressed pockets fancy tops per thousand, 4 feet lengths, £17 ; 4A feet lengths, £24 ; o feet, £23 ; G feet, £24.