AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1564, 22 February 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[BBUTBB’B TELEOBAMS TO PRESS AGENCY.] Sydney, February 21. Brandy, Hennesoy’s case 33-< 6d ; Hennesey’s quarters, 9a 3d. Kerosene: Devoo’s and Diamond, la 81. Bice, Patna, £25. New Zealand wheat and oata : none in the market. Tobacco : Eaven’s twist, la 61 to Is 7d, Adelaide, February 21. Flour, £l2 to £l2 10a ; wheat, sa. Melbourne, February 21. In the match England v. Victoria, England made 325, Victorians, one for 2, The majority of the cricketers return by San Francisco. They will stay a short time in Now Zealand. They leave Melbourne on the 11th Ma*ch. A deputation waited upon the Deputy-Postmaster-Q-eneral to-day regarding the prohibition of the use of a code of figures in cable press messages to Europe, showing that such prohibition was an inconvenience to the mercantile community of the colonies. The Deputy-Postmaster promised to take stops to ensure the representation of the colonies at the International Telegraph Conference, to be held in July next. Arrived—Arawata, yesterday. Sailed—Claud Hamilton. [special to the globe.] Sydney, February 21. It is rumoured that the A.S.N. Company have purchased three largo steamships in England to compete in the New Zealand trade. The Outlawry Bill has passed. It applies to offences by the Kelly gang committed in other colonies. The credit of the City Council has been stopped by the Union Bank,