AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
Melbourne, August 17. Commercial — Flour, £16 to £17 15s ; wheat, at auction, nothing higher than 6s 7d ; half withdrawn, and privately sold from 6s 8d to 6s lOd, net cash. Oats inactive ; common sorts at 3s 3kd to 3s 4 |d ; prime is scarce, and saleable at 3s 8d to 3s 9d. The Scott Centenary was celebrated in all the chief towns in Australia and Tasmania. Tbe Victorian tariff bill bas finally passed through committee in the Assembly. The brewers agitated against double duties on malt, but tbe department was inflexible. Mr Parkes, representative of Hall's line, is in Melbourne. In addition to £15,000 voted by the Sydney Parliament, the South Australian Government to ask subsidy. Victoria, with Melbourne as terminus, to pay £20,000, tbe line to be by Sydney, Levuka, aud Honolulu, with three days at Melbourne and Frisco, and forty-six to Liverpool. Sydney, August 17. A prisoner in Paramatta gaol says he found a deposit of Leichardt's papers in Central Australia. He offers to find them if taken to Northern Australia. Adelaide, August 16. A rich discovery of copper has been mado near Wilcannia, on the Darling.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3287, 26 August 1871, Page 2
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AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3287, 26 August 1871, Page 2
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