AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2221, 9 April 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[renter’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, April 8. A New Member. The election of a member for Earth Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly, in room of the late Mr Story, took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Mr Munro. Shipping. Arrived —To Anan, from the Bluff. SYDNEY, April 8. The Markets. New Zealand wheat, 3s ; maize, per 601b5., 3a; candles, D.E.J.’s, per lb., B^d; R.O.’s, B£d, Unfortunate Colonists. \ Three hundred of the Marquis do Ray’s New Ireland immigrants arrived • here from New Caledonia to-day. Laycock’s Reception. E. Laycock, the oarsman, arrived hero to-day, per Lusitania, from England, and was accorded a warm reception, great i crowds meeting him. r Sporting. The following are the probable starters ■ for the Hawkesbnry Handicap to-mor-row:—Childers, Rosinanto, Gunild, Sweet ] Chutney, Falmouth, Major, Braidwood, f Retrospect, Sweetmeat, Bob Sawyer, Strathearn, Gipsy Cooper, The Knave, ( Sapphire, The Barber, Black Swan, Black Eagle, Yerdict, Lord Burghley, Othello, ] Creswick, Harmony, Saunterer, Lord Lisgar, The Dean, Jeventas, Croydon, , Avemus, Woodlands, Fragments, ADELAIDE, April 8. - The Markets. 1 Wheat, 4s 4d to 4a sd. But little business has been done during the week. Town flour, £lO 5s to £lO 7s 6d; country brands, £9 10s, Freights to London — Steamer, 45s ; ditto, sailing, 1 42s 6d. (|