AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1635, 17 May 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, May 15

A new company is forming to resusticate the Provincial and Suburban Bank, and to protect the old shareholders.

[renter's telegrams.] SYDNEY, May 16,

Hennossy’s brandy, case, 32s 6d to 335; quarters, 9s to 9s 3d; kerosene, Is 7-Jd to Is 8d; Patna rice, £2l; Now Zealand wheat, 4s 6d; New Zealand oats, 3s; Raven’s twist tobacco, Is 6d; candles, dto B£d; sugar, unchanged.

The names of the new Australian team are—The two Bannormans, Blackham, Boyle, Horan, Massio, Murdoch, Evans, Spofforth, Garrett, and Alexander. ADELAIDE, May 16. Adelaide flour, at Adelaide, £11; do., wheat, unchanged. Two thousand three hundred emigrants hare arrived since Ist January. Many are unemployed.

[Yia Auckland. SYDNEY, May 10. General Grant is daily expected at Singapore, on his way to Sydney Exhibition. The Peak Downs mine is a dead failure. Great distress prevails among the families of the miners.

The yield of sugar in the Logan district last year was over fourteen tons. The appearance of the cane is magnificent, T J. Sadlin, formerly Police Magistrate at Lambo, attempted suicide on the way to answer a charge of embezzling savings-bank funds.

O. D, Wills, Police Magistrate at Normanton, was drowned while duck shooting. Fanning rush is a failure. Six hundred Chinese arrived at Port Darwin, and 500 more are expected shortly by the steamer Bowen.