AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2573, 6 July 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[BETTTER'S TELEGEAII.I MELBOURNE, July 5. Malting barley remains at 5a 4d. The market is quiet. Wheat is Irregular today. The quotation for shipping is 6s 3d; for New Zealand oats the market is steady; feeding sort 3 are unchanged at 4s to 4s 2d; and milling at 4s 3d to 4s sd. A rumor is current that; "he Government intend to repeal the existing Stock Tax Act at an. early date. NEW ZEALAND. [PUB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, July 5. Tho'.tspßon'a Zulu War Diorama opened in tha new Opera House. Money was. refused at the door. The Bosebank Estate of the late Robert Ohisholm, consisting of 400 acres at Whangarei, Avondale, realized at auction nearly £9OO. It was mostly unimproved l»nd. The Her. Thomas Soott, of Coromandel, whe conducted service at Christ's Ohuich on Sunday, died to-day suddenly. WANGANJI, July 5. A special meeting of the A. and P. Association was held to-day re the Sheep Aot, Opinions were pretty equally divided. It was resolved to amend the Act by striking onfc clauses 17, 25, end 26 Nothing further was done, na owing to some of ths members having left, there was nob a quorum proBent. TIMAILD", July 5. The number of applications foi shares in the new Timaru Steam Collier Company is b.t greatly in excess of the requirements that it is not improbable the oapital will be incre.iced end more than one steamer built. Enquiries are being made as to a suitable steamer to charter till the company's boat arrives. DTJNEDIN, July 3. At the Land Board to-dsy the Chief Commissioner, Mr Haithvnd, expressed pn opinion decidedly againßt the introduction or ferrets and polecats for rabbit exte: ruination, stating that ferrets in Southland had only killed the woodhens, which are thcrcselvßS a powerful enemy of the rabbit. He also stated thni; from all parts of the country statements vers ooming to him of the marked fiuceess of the poisoning rendered imperative under the present Aot. The ship Oity of Perth has been told privatoly for £6OOO to Mr John Mill, of Port Chalmers. Nearly £4OO been collected for the Kitchener family. The sufferers remain in about ■he seine state. INYEROARSILL Ju3ys. Information has reached town from OUutau that two men, mimed John Oornurford arid Huph Meßermoit, •.versdr.iw: cd last Sunday while attempting to cross the Apsriraa river on horseback. The horses reached the bank, and returned to the place from which their riders started. A resident at Woodland?, who had bis horso killed on a recent Savurdsy night by the late train to Woodlands, was to-day prosocuted for allowing the aiamal to wander on the line. It appeared in evidence that the horse could only have got eccaea to the railway, Vfhioh w&a fenced on bath sid*e, through a gate left open by a railway servant at the station yards. The neglige nes ia this particular instance could not be proved, ar.d the R.S£. inflicted a nominal fine of five shillings, remarking thit thin sort of cases wcran:att«ia of great hardship. Ho had often found a difficulty in oonstruing the proviatons of the Public Worke Act in the mr.Uers of fencing and straying animr.ls on the railway.