AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 938, 9 May 1883, Page 2

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[REUTER’* TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] The Sabbatarians. Melbourne, Yesterday. At a meeting held at the Town Hall last night in opposition ’to the opening pf tlje Apt Gallery an 4 Museum on Sundays great ' disorder prevailed. The Markets-. ■. The Melbourne manager of th# National Mortgage and Agency. Company of New Zealand reports of Uie local

grain markets as follows Shipping wheat quiet at 5s 3d to 5s 4d; malting barley, 5s rod to 6s market strong. New Zealand oats are in fair demand at as rod to 3s ad for feeding, and 3s 3d to 3s 4d for milling. New Zealand oats under bond, as 3d to as Bd. The Postal Conference. Sydney, Yesterday. Mr Alexander Stuart, Premier of New South Wales, has given notice of bis intention to move at the International Conference that each colony should act independently in regard to joining the'Postal Union. [Received May 9,12.50 p. m. ] Mblboubnb, To-day. The correspondent of the Argus at Sydney telegraphs that it is improbable that either the Victoria or Queensland delegates will accept the proposal to join the postal union, and that it is doubtful whether the colonies will agree to enter the union together. Mr Francis’s Health. Mr James Francis is progressing favorably towards recovery. Shipping. Sydney, To-day. Arrived, yesterday morning, the ■ Tarawera, from Auckland. A Duplicate Gable. It is expected that the Intercolonial Conference now sitting here will consider the question of a duplicate cable subsidy on the basis of the population of the contributing colonies, and also < the question of >altering the. intercolonial telegraphic rates.