AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2123, 24 February 1870, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

MiaBorKNK, Feb. 19. Tlie import markets arc dull. Breadstuffs languid. Flour, LI I 10s to L I*2. Medium brewing crystal sugars hare declined LI. Tobaccos arc rising. Teas very dull. Quicksilver is in demand, at 2? -Id. Wheat dull, at os to ds 2d ; maize, 3s (id ; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 0d ; baricv, 4s 3d. Kerosene oil linn, consequent on the probable loss of tue ship Confidence to .Sydney with 7,UIHJ eases. Wool sales brisk, 040 bales sold. Creasy, od to 7Tb Scour d, to is (id. I'lecce, Hid to 13d.

r>.died for Greymouth, In and Vi aterman, on Ibtb ; Cotheiibiug arrived loth ; sailed. Aborigine for Hokitika, 13th ; Zepuyr and Prosperity iOth ; .Malta arrived, loth. Arrived at Newcastle, 14.h, Duke of Edinburgh and Albertina ; Tell Irma Dunedin. The Vovagcr sailed for Duntd n. Tlic Adeline Burke sailed from Newcastle ; litll,' Uova for Auckland. Parliament opened on thi dth. dhe address in repiy to the Governor s sp eeh was carried by a majority of six. .1 itc 'Apposition party are disunited, A "violent altercation occurred bet ween Mr G. P. Smith and Dr Macartney. The ior.iier said he would kick the latter gene < email. They aiterwaids met in toe Library, when Mr Smith struck Dr Macartney a violent bow in the iace. ■'-mith apologised on Thursday night, and the squabb.e ended. Mr Bryce Boss, formerly Goldfields cor* respondent lor the Jlellknirue Herald, shot himself on tue 13th iust. Mr Akiust satie.t per Kent. Hurry Ferguson, and old resident at