AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3588, 31 March 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pbb Eltotrio Telegraph — Copymoht. ) (Reutbb's Agency.) (Received 10 p.m., March 26fch.) THE NEW HEBRIDES. Sydney, March SO. A circular has been issued to the Governments of the various Australian colonies by the Premier, Sir Patrick Jennings, stating that the Government of New South Wales is not disposed to take any action m opposition to the negotiations now going on m regard to the New Hebrides question, providing France gives the necessary guarantee not to deport recidivistes to the Pacific Islands. SHIPPING. Arrived, yesterday morning — Wakatipu, from Wellington. (Received 1.15 a.m., March 31st.) a bank manager m trouble. Adelaide, March 30. Lyall, manager of the Commercial Bank of South Australia, at Yankalilla, the scene of the alleged robbery, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. MELBOURNE MARKETS. Melbourne, March 30. The Local Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, reports on the grain market as follows : — Shipping wheat is rather firm at 4s 3d to 43 4d ; malting barley, nominally, 3s 6d to 4s ; New Zealand oats, feed, less depression, but not much doing, at 2s 8d to 3a ; milling steady, without active demand, at 3s Id to 3s 3d, and under bond, 2a 3d to 2s 6d.