AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 21 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By iEiec^io Teiegr^pli,-r-OQpjngiit [PEE "UNITEI).PKEB|3 ABSOCIATIPN.] '■■"•'- " ■. Storey, January -19. '*"' Maize, best, 4s ; market dull. Wheat, milling; 3s 6d to 3i '8d; fowFs, Si Id scarce: Oats; wed* 2s to 2s 2d ; feed, 2s 3d, business dull. Potatoes,; local, 40s :to 455. : New Zealand oatmeal unsaleable. New Zealand bams, IJ.& to Is ; bacon, sa- .'.v.;.-; i"v ( . "■,.'. ..,..;.-!/ -. . . ', Further deaths bare been reported from sunstroke. The heat yesterday- was 101 in the shade here, and in the conutry 114. The weather' is cool to-day! ; ' f he" swollen corpse of a man has Wen discovered in the city water supply basin From: the appearances it had beeaimmerae3 four days. ... .. : The Emperor of China has forwarded a number of presents to his Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Parkes,; 1 and other gentleman; in recognition of the [hospitable reoej-tion accorded to ' the Chineao Commissioners- on tneir recent *risit to IS ew South Wales. : / ; ;;} , A meeting of the .New Zealanders, held last night/ was (attended by ibout 100 persons. . tßesolutions were: ipassed in faror of Protection and condemning the Atkinson Government for shelving the tariff question last sessibti. .Resolutions were also passed calling upon the Colon* ial Treasurer of New Zealand i to,' make the fiscal policy of the Colony the first business this year; and asking him to substitute land and income taxes for the property-tax. ':,'"".._.; _'„.]' '.'./'■,- .. A shipment of butter sent home from here has fetched one 'shilling per pound. It is described as the best erer seen, excelling Danish, and that there is nothing in the market to compare with it. The agents to whom the shipment was con» signed expect to be able to readily esestablihh a permanent market for it. The* Czar's . cousin, the Grand Puke Michaeloritoh, : is a passenger by the Russian warship Eynda (not the A villa n as previously telegraphed). The Bynda is a comparatively new vessel, having been built about three years ago. Sheis an ironclad, with an armour thickness of one and a half inohes at the water line. Her tonnage is 4950 tons, and her meine are 3000 horse power. ■ She carries eight sixMnch, and three five.inch^gUD.s. * • The Bocial Purity Society have asked the police to stop the Burke-Foley glove, fight, but they have declined .to accede to the request. ;: . ... Mslbovbkb, January 19. Breadstuffs are active. Wheat is quoted 3«;3£d; oats, 2s lOd to 3s Ojd prime stout barley. 2s* 10} d; maize, 3*. B|d. Bhares in the broken Hill silver mine hare reached £250. . AOEJU.IDB, January 19. Wheat is quoted at 3s 3d; for outports, 2s 10d. Flour is improved t roller; made is .quoted at ,9s. ; Oats, 2s lOd ; barley, 4s to 4» 6d. * !