AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 832, 3 January 1883, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.] The Clarence Wreck. Sydney, Yesterday. The inquest at Clarence on the bodies of those drowned by the wreck of the New England has concluded. The iurv censured the pilot at the Heads for neglect of duty, in not ren- . - dering assistance to the steamer. - [Received'Jan. 3,12.40 p.m.] Revenue Returns. " Sydney, To-day. The Treasury returns show that during the December quarter the, re- - venue of New South Wales amounted to La,080,000, showing an increase of . 1,163,000 as compared with the corres- ; ponding quarter in 1881. For the year just ended the total revenue was ’ L7,42b,600, or an increase of Lyo^ooo ~ on the yeat iSSr. • The Victorian Loan. . - Melbourne, Yesterday. The Government has decided to fix - ' the minimum of the loan about to be ( raised in London at par, and has . ■ telegraphed to the Agent-General ac- . cordingly. The Government has undertaken not '. to issue a redemption loan this year at A price below par. Shipping. Melbourne, To-day. Arrived, yesterday afternoon —Roto- • mahana, s.s., from the Bluff, [Received Jan. 3,2 p.m.] A Turf Swindler. The proprietor of one of the totahsators on the Champion Race has i ■ • absconded. • Two thousand pounds are • owing to the winners, and the police decline to interfere in the matter. . The late Cricket Match. The Melbourne papers agree that ■j 1 the-Englishmen’s display of cricket in ; the recent match was disappointing J and all express the ,opinion that the i j team was beaten on its merits. Fifty thousand persons paid for admission : during the three days’ play. Gold-mining in Victoria. The various Victorian goldmining companies during the -past year have ' paid dividends amoupting ; to 1.863,000, being a large increase on the previous year. Quartz-mines have paid 1*565,000, and alluvial LzpSjOoo, [Received Jan. 3,2 p.m ] The. Sugar Trade. Mauritius advices, dated 14th December, to hand per steamship Natal, , report that the weather was favorable to • planters, but that labor was scarce. The 1 iugarmarket was active, and a large • ‘biisjaess. was doing for Australia 'at iformer prices, which were firmly main"l tained. The freight market had <j e * dined. Clearances —For Lyttjelton, Tayet ■ and Ocean ; for Port Chalmers, Altair. Sailed—For Auck- • land, Sybil; for Port Chalmers, Ocean >At "itatiger. Leading—For Port Chalmers, „ Mountaineer; for Lyttelton, John Aldon. ; • A New Line of Steamers. , .r'. Adelaide, Yesterday. . Arrived Steamship Natal, 4,000 •i . tons, from Marseilles, She is the c pioneer of the Messageries Maritime -Company’s line to Australia and New -I,Caledonia. •