AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 152, 5 July 1870, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thb s.s. Rangitoto arrived at the Bluff on the 28th ult., having left Melbourne on the 23rd. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, June 23. Business is dull. Flour nominal, unchanged. Wheat wanted, 4». lid. to 55.; INew Zealand Wheat, 49. sd. to 4s. 6d. Oats wanted, and prices firm at 3s. 3d. to 3s. 4Jd. Maize falling, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 3d. Wool sales brisk; 284 bales were sold yeserday at a slight advance on previous rates. The Anti-State Aid Bill has been read a first time in the Council. A strong opposition is expected. The Intercolonial Conference meetings are itrictly private. The press is excluded, and little is known regarding their deliberations. It is belived t'.-.at the Tasmanian Delegates stated their views on intercolonial customs union at great length; also, that ( M'Culloch had submitted resolutions pressing the Home Government to undertake protection of the Fijis. Arrived—Tararua, 21st, Sir James Palmer is still indisposed. Inspectors Nicholson and Hare refuse to accept any pecuniary reward for arresting Power. Sergeant Mountfoi d has been promoted to a sub-inspectorship. Thoma3 Bloomfield Smith, mining agent, was run over and killed by a railway train at Eichmond, on Sunday. Turning the first sod of the North-Eastern Railway took place on the 20th. SYDNEY. Sailed from Newcastle—2nd, Deva, for Auckland ; Eita for Lvttleton. A man named Spencer, representing himself as a clergyman, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for vagrancy. Wool sales are active. Greaay wool brought advanced rates. James Mem Loder, a well known squatter, ia dead. The floods at Waga Waga are subsiding. ADELAIDE. The Evangelical Alliance is taking energetic measures to abolish night permits to public houses. The Chief Secretary promised his support. Corn market firm; sales of wheat at os. ocl. i