AUSTALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1047, 11 January 1884, Page 2

AUST A L IAN.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] The Victorian Wool Sales. . Melbourne, Yesterday.

The catalogue at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co,’s wool auc- , tion this week, comprised 2,600 bales. There was a large attendance of buyers,' and with the exception of 200 bales all ' the lots offered were successfully cleared at excellent prices. The market is firm for all descriptions of greasy, low cross-; I bred excepted, and farmers’ lots sold at J ' : improved fates. Scoured merinos are in good demand, and parcels offered ; to-day realised up to and greasy to I2d. Sxaall-sox at Mauritius. Quarantine hap been established here ■ against vessels arriving from Mauritius, where an outbreak of smallpox occurred. • v A Another Noble Visitor. ■./ The Marquis of Bute is a passenger for Australia by the steamship Orient, which left Plymouth on December Ist, The Fire.

The principal damage done by the fire at the Apollo candleworks was in two of the stillrooms, both of. which were completely gutted. The loss was estimated at Lia,soo. The insurance amounts to 1,40,000 divided among twenty companies. [Received Jan. 11,12.30 p.m.] Shipping. Svdnkt, To-day. Sailed, yesterday afternoon—Riogarooma, for Auckland. The Queensland Policy. ;> Brisbane, To-day. Mr Griffith, the Premier, made a statement of the policy of the ment. He announced that notice had been given to terminate the .present contract with the British India Navigation Co. for a direct service with Queensland, and that in future, immlgration will be limited to a thousand monthly. It has been decided to make a change in the Agent. Generalship. The poll tax on the Chinese will be increased, and the number allowed to arrive will be restricted. Trunk lines of railway will be extended, and a start will be made with the line from the Gulf of Carpentaria. [Received Jan. 11, 2.20 p.m.] Appointments. Melbourne. To-day. It is understood that Messrs Symonds, Templeton, and Professor * Irving will constitute a new Public Service Board, about to be appointed, and it is probable that Mr Agg, Audit Commissioner, will be one of the members of the Railway Board.