AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2710, 14 December 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. fEBUTEB's TELEGRAM.] Received December 13th, 10 p.m. MELBOURNE, December 13. "Wheat is quoted at 5s 3d to 5s 5d for shipping parcels. The price is barely maintained. Mating barley is firm at 3s lOd to 4s. New Zealand oats are very quiet, and feeding qualities are worth 3s 9d to 4s 2d, and milling from 4s 2d to 4s 4d. The Union Co.'s new steamship Hauroto. from Glasgow (October 25th), arrived here to-day. The Union Co.'s steamship Ringarooma arrived this afternoon from the Bluff. It is announced that the Union Steamship Company has purchased the steamer Suva, 293 tons, from Messrs J. McEwan and Son, by whom she has for sometime past been employed in the trade between Fiji and Melbourne. The company intends employing one of its large steamers on that line, and the Suva will be engaged in the islands as a feeder to the trade. It has further transpired that tbe company has made arrangements to open a branch establishment in Melbourne on January Ist, under the management of Mr David Mills. The divers attached to H.M.V.S. Cerebus were sent to Creswick to-day to assist in rescuing the miners in the flooded Australasian mine. The apparatus, however, with which they were provided proved inadequate to enable them to reach the place where the men were at work. The divers endeavored to communicate with the imprisoned miners, but their signals were unanswered, and it is believed that the miners have perished. There is great excitement and distress in the Creswick district.

Received December 14th, 1.5 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 13,

Three of the bodies of the miner drowned by the flooding of the Australasian mine at Croswiek were recovered this evening. The water in the shaft is being reduced rapidly, and the work of repairing the tubes which supply the workings with fresh air is now being proceeded with.

Messrs Goldsborough and Co., report a large attendance of buyers at their wool sale to-day, and brisk competition Greasy wools realised from 8d to 12fd, and washed from lCd to 23|d. Five thousand bales were sold.