AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1054, 19 January 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[bedter’s telegrams COPYRIGHT.] The Mail. Sydney, Yesterday. Arrived, this morning—The P.M.S. Australia, from San Francisco, via Auckland. , Shipping. Sailed, this evening—The Union steamship Hauroto, for Auckland. Wrecked. The Jsteamer Lismore, 339 tons, has been wrecked at Ballina, at the entrance to Richmond River, 330 miles north' of Sydney. The passengers were saved. The insurances amount tp Lip,opp. The Markets. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 3s 6d; New Zealand oats, 3s $d (sic); maize, 4s 6d; Sugar Co.’s No 1 pieces, per ton, L 34. Adelaide, Yesterday.

Wheat, per bushel, 4s to 4s id; market quiet and irregular, and quotations nominal. Flour is dull; town brands, L 1 8; country do, L9to Lg ss ; freights to London—steamers 455, do sailing 35s ; freights to the United Kingdom from Adelaide—cereals, 35s j freights to the United Kingdom from outports 37s 6d to 40sj freights are firm, but charters are unsettled and falling. [Received Jan. 19, 1 p.m.] The Spanish Crisis. Madrid, Jan. 18.

A new Ministry is being formed by Senor Canova. The present crisis has arisen in consequence of disunion having occurred &mong the methbpjS of the Liberal' party' in the jCorfes,' * The Blockade of Canton Suspended. Hong Kong. Jan. 18.'

It has transpired that, yielding' to British the Chinese Government have suspepded opejratjops for blockading the Canton riyefs with torpedoes. Gold for Australia ' i ■ L ndon, Jan. 18. The isura of Lzoojoop in go}d has been withdrawn from >^ e of Engv land for Australasia; 'and il is that further withdrawals' will shortly b§ made.