AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1040, 5 September 1883, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

' ’ [uKOTER's TELEGRAMS —COLYRIOTIT.] Shipping- - ; ; i . Melbourne., Yesterday. Sailed, this afternoon— The Union steamship Manapouri, for the Bluff. The Timber Trade. Messrs C. S. Ross and Co., of this city, report sales of timber, ex ships Welcome, Maria Virginia, and Circe at thd following average prices-.—Kauri pine, T. and G. flooring, 4 x 1%, 6s per 100 ft lineal; 4" x 1,3 s ?d; white pine, per 1 ooft, super sawn boards, 7s; ■dressed do, 9s 3d per 100 ft lineal; - The market is very depressed. fW , ; , The Markets ;■ The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company Of New Zealand, Limited, reports’as folof the local grain markets The market is firm and steady. I Shipping parcels 4s rod to 4s 11a; I fowl’s wheat, 3s pd to 4s 4d; malting • barley dull at 5s to 6s 3d, market irregular. New Zealand oats are quietei;tnilling sorts 3 s 2 d to 3 s 3d, feeding ditto zs nd to 3s 3d; New Zealand oats, under bond, are slow of sale at * as ad to zs 4d.

[Received Sept. 5, 1 p.m.] Earthquakes. Hobart To-day. ’ An official statement that has been published says that altogether fifty shocks of earthquake have been felt in Tasmania during the month of August. Charge of Heresy. Melbourne, To-day. The Rev. -Mr|McCreachern has given notice of motion charging the Rev. Charles Strong with promulgating -and publishing heretical and unsound doctrines. The Presbytery will meet on the nth inst. .to consider the motion.