AUSTRALIA.
[reuteb’s telegrams.]
MELBOURNE, June 20,
The Legislative Assembly met again to-day. During the proceedings of the day, Mr Francis rose to move his amendment regarding the remission of taxation proposed by the Government. The Speaker, however, ruled that the motion was out of order, and it was thereupon withdrawn, and Mr Francis has expressed his intention of bringing his motion again before the House in Committee of Ways and Means.
Sailed this afternoon, the Union Company’s steamship Te Anan, for the Bluff.
SYDNEY, Jane 20.
The New South Wales Parliament has been further prorogued to August 22nd. Telegrams have been received here reporting that the barque Dirigo, 695 tons, which left Sydney on May 7 th, with a cargo of coal for Shanghai, has been wrecked near that port, ALBANY, June 20.
The P. and O. steamer Sutlej, with the inward mails via Suez and Brindisi, dated London, May 19th, arrived in King George’s Sound to-day. ADELAIDE, Jane 20.
It is expected that some of the largest flour mills in this colony will shortly be completely stopped for want of wheat. The farmers, it is stated, hold large stocks, but are unwilling to sell at present prices, and it is understood that wheat is being shipped from California to Adelaide.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2559, 21 June 1882, Page 3
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