AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1588, 22 March 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[RBTTTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Sydney, March 21.

Patna rice, £23 ; Adelaide wheat, 5s to Ss 3d ; New Zealand wheat, 43 3d to 4s 6d ; Adelaide flour unchanged ; New Zealand oats unchanged ; candles, BJd, brandy, kerosene, tobaccos, and sugar unchanged. Bbisbane, March 21. Evidence has been obtained which has led to the conviction of Captain Piper for the murder of Stephens at Mao Zoolah thirteen years ago. Adelaide, March 21. The Garonne got off Tapley shoal uninjured, and returned here. Melbourne, March 21. Arrived—Durham.

[SPECIAL TO THE PBES3 AGENCY.] Melbourne, March 21.

The Underwriters' Association report under date of London, March 18th, the arrival of the ships Waimea and Nelson from Por) Chalmers, and the Crusader from Lyttelton.

(Via Auckland.) Mblboubne, March 15. Several sailors of nu immigrant ship were severely punished for attempts to cause a mutiny. Benjamin Usher of the Black Eod in the Tasmanian Assembly, was arrested for procuring abortion. Awful scenes occurred on the attempted departure of the Aldinga for Solander Island with a pugilistic crew. Eventually the steamer was stopped. All the pugilists, |magsmen, scoundrels, and roughs of the country were on the wharf, with a fair sprinkling of respectable sporting men. Many of the crowd of magsmen bure very long faces because they were unable to procure tickets to go with the party, others because therejwas no money bet on the fight.

There have been arrivals of Chinamen at Port Darwin, fifteen hundred in a few days. Extensive revenue f rauda by means of an illicit ntill have been discovered in Queensland. The evidence shows that the owners had on the premises a complete plant for imitating the brands, capsules, and labels of Hennessy and Martell'B brandy, and JDKZ aud othi.r brands of gin. The labels for this business were supplied by respectable stationers. It was also shown that large orders for these goods have for a long time past been supplied to respectable firms in Brisbane and the country districts. The newspapers it ntend publishing the names of these firms.