AUSTRALIA.
By Electric Telegraph—' opyright.
[redter’b telegrams.] Received December 19th, 2.30 p.m
MELBOURNE, December 19.
Subscriptions on behalf of the widows and orphans at Creswick already amount to AGOOO, and are expected to reach .£IO,OOO. Received December 19th, 10 p.m. MELBOURNE, December 19.
The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports the local produce market as follows: —Wheat, per bushel, shipping, 4s 9d, with the market void of competition ; barley (malting) firm at 3s 9d to 4s ; New Zealand oats sluggish; feeding qualities, duty paid, 3s 9d; malting ditto, 4s 3d; New Zealand oats, under bond, are weaker, and prices range from 3s 2d to 3s 6d. New Zealand best hams, under bond, steady at 9Jd, and New Zealand bacon at 8d per lb. Received December 20th, 0.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 19.
Subscriptions for the relief of the widows and orphans of the miners who recently lost their lives at Creswick now amount to £9200.
December 19,
The accounts to hand of the wheat crop are less favorable than was anticipated* In some parts of the colony the yield will only be half a bushel to the acre, in others the crop will not be worth harvesting.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2714, 20 December 1882, Page 3
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