AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2432, 21 January 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[eeutee’s telegrams.! MELBOURNE, January 20. Arrived yesterday evening—Union Company’s steamship Albion from the Bluff. The Garonne’s Passengers. It is probable that all the Garonne’s saloon passengers, now in quarantine bore, will be released at an early date. SYDNEY, January 20. High DividendThe Commercial Bank of Sydney pays a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 25 per cent, per annum, and carries £IO,OOO to the reserve. The Markets. Honnessy’a brandy, case, 33s 6d; bulk, quarters, 12s 6d ; kerosene, per gallon, diamond, Is 2d ; Devoe’s, Is 3d ; Patna rice, per ton, £l4 10s ; Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, per ton, £35 ; New Zealand wheat, per bushel, ss; New Zealand oats, 3s 3d ; maize, per bushel, ss; candles, per lb., D.R.J.’s, 7M; D.R.O.’s, 74d. ADELAIDE, January 20. The Weather. Intensely hot weather has been experienced here during the last few days. The Markets. Wheat market continues firm. Wheat per bushel, £4 10s to £4 11s; town flour per ton, £ll 10s to £ll 12s 6d; country brands, £lO 10s to £lO 15s. Freights to London, per steamer, 60s; ditto sailing, 455. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide, 45s to 50s; ditto from outports, 50s to 52s 6d, N.Z. Passengers Quarantined. Passengers for New Zealand by the Mirzapore now in quarantine here—Miss Pelichan, Messrs Callow, Passmore, Ghost. Every precaution is being taken to prevent infection from the smallpox patients on board. The health officers have ordered the Adelaide mails to be exposed in an open boat for twenty-four hours before being landed, and the cargo ffor orty-eight hours.