AUSTRALIAN.
[eeutee’s telegeaais.J MELBOURNE, May 8, True or Hot True.
A bottle has been found on the beach at Portland containing a paper, signed John Webster, and dated February 23rd 1880, stating that the ship Locksley Hall (sic) was wrecked on the Crozets and that all on board perished except three, who are destitute, and are sub. sisting on fish. Doubts are generally expressed as to the authenticity of th a message. SYDNEY, May 7. Shipping. Arrived —Wakatipu, from New Zealand. The Markets, Hennessy’s brandy, in bulk quarters, 11s 3d; Devoe’s kerosene. Is 9d per gallon; Patna rice, £l7 per ton; New Zealand oats, 2s 3d per 401b5.; maize, 2s to 2s 8d per 601bs; Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, £33; candles, D.R.J.’s, 62d. The British QueenThe barque British Queen, which left Charente on January 20th for Melbourne, put in at the Cape, owing to the crew having mutinied and broached the cargo. ADELAIDE, May 7. Wheat and Flour. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 4d per bushel nominal: flour, £lO 5s to £lO 7s 6d; freights from Adelaide to London, 37s 6d to 42s 6d.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1936, 8 May 1880, Page 2
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185AUSTRALIAN. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1936, 8 May 1880, Page 2
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