AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 100, 24 March 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Melboubne, March 23. Wheat, prime, 3s 6d; flour, quiet, roller made £9 10s; oats, seed, 3s; maize, 3s sd; bran, 9£d. Sales of New Zealand oats have been effected at2s9£d. Adelaide, March 22. The Moonta copper mines, owing to the recent rise in shares, now show a working profit of £60,000. Sydney, March 22. Several more tram accidents have occurred recently. This morning a man was knocked down by a tram motor and killed. Mr John Waynes, M.L.A. for Miidgee, intends issuing a writ against Mr James Fletcher, M.L.A. for Newcastle, claim* ing £5000 damages for the assault committed upon him in the House of Assembly last night.

Two other corporations have discovered frauds by their ofßVers. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Bourke Town Clerk in. consequence of defalcations which had been discovered in bis accounts. At another phice, it has been found that payments have been made three times .oyer, for work. The engineer in the latter case is ' suspected of complicity in the fraud. . New Zealand -potatoes, 65s to *70a ; onionßi6os"to 655; new maize, 2s to 2^ 3d ; oats, bright feed 2s to 2s 2d, milling' 2s 3d; New Zealand bran, 6|d to 7d ; -pollard, 8d ; chick wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; peas. 3s 6d ; best butter, 9d to lOd ; cheese plentiful, loaf, "4§d to 6d; bran, 9d ; hams, New Zealand, Is to ls Id ; bacon 9£d. .