AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1268, 31 May 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(kECTEk’s TBLEGEAMS—OOrYKIGHT.) Suicide. Melbourne. Yesterday. Edgar Bastings, one of the cabin passengers per steamship Ringarooma, which arrived here this morning, committed suicide yesterday by jumping overboard. His body was recovered, but life was then extinct. Shipping. Btonkt; Tester Jay. Sailed, last night—The Union steamship Waihora, for Auckland. ’ TMa Feotbail Team. A strong local team has been picked to play against the New Zealand footballers to-morrow. The Markets. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 3s ibd ; New Zealand oats, zs pd j maize, 45 6d; Sugar Company’s No 1 pieces, per ton, L 34. Adelaide, Yesterday. Wheat, 4s; market quiet and quotations nominal. Flour—Town brands, L9ssto Lp 1 os; country do, LBss to L 8 1 os. ' [Received May 31st, 1.20 p.m.] An Equity Suit. Melbourne, To-day. The trial of an equity* suit, George Meredith Pell, farmer of Southland, v, Joseph Clark, has commenced. The land of these and other parties was sold to Sir Julius Vogel’s New Zealand Agricultural Company for Li,080,000. .Mr Pell now claims thatsum. L 857,000 is still due to him on the claim account [Received May 31, 12.15 p.m.] The Queensland Parliament. Brisbane, To-day. The Queensland Parliament will meet for the despatch of business on July Bth. ‘ I The Recidivists Question. Mr Griffiths, the Premier, in reply to a deputation which waited on him yesterday, stated that during next session of Parliament the Government would endeavor to pass a law sufficiently Stringent to put a stop to the influx of Freuch criminals to Queensland.-