AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 218, 25 January 1865, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(From the Ary its) Adelaide, December 27. Business very quiet. Flour firm; a sale of Newton brand—3oo tons —has been made to day, at £2O, inquiry for wheat, but little offering. New is worth 7s. (id. at the port. The Wonga Wonga, with the English mail, sailed at 2 p.m. Arrived.—Heather Bell, and Amicus, from London ; Kangaroo, from Sydney; Agnes, from Melbourne ; Remark, from Newcastle. Sailed.—Waverley, for New Zealand; Coorong, for Melbourne.

Additional items extracted from the telegrams of Messrs. Greville and Bird (Reuter’s agents) : Sydney, December 28.

Hall, Gilbert, and Dunn visited Binda on Monday night, and entered a publichouse where a ball was being held. Mr. Morris, a storekeeper, suggested to the persona present that there was a chance of capturing them. Gilbert being informed of the intention tried to shoot Morris. Failing this, the gang went to Morris’s store, plundered it, then burned the premises and contents. No business doing. Arrived.—Alabama, from n whaling expedition. Cleared Out.—Woodbine, for Adelaide. Adelaide, December 29. Business very dull. Flour in fair demand. Sales at £l9 to £2O. . Stocks very light. Move business doing in wheat. Several parcels changed hands at 7s. 6d., but for parcels for immediate delivery Bs. has to be paid. Bran quiet at I4d. to lid. Arrived.—Annie Beaton, from Port Frederick ; Cassina, from Newcastle. Additional items, extracted from the telegrams of Messrs. Greville and Bird (Reuter’s agents):— Cornsacks are selling at IDs. per dozen. Messrs. Townsend, Bottiug, and Kaye offered at auction to day the cargo of teas ex Philip, from Foo-Chow-Foo; but the trade showed no disposition to buy, and only a small portion of the medium congous, in chests, were sold, realising from £7 to £7 3s. per chest. Cleared Out.—Yirginie, for Calcutta, with horses and copper. Sydney, December 29. There is a slight improvement in the cattle and sheep market this week. Arrived. —Devonshire, from Liverpool. At the wool sale to day about 700 bales were sold at last week’s rates; one parcel of fleece realized 20£d. Large parcels of tobacco were offered at auction. The trade is fully supplied, and declined purchasing. Business quiet. Maizo, -Is.; oats, 3s. 3d. Sugar Company quote, duty paid, snowdrops, £-18; crystals, £44; other sorts, £32, £35, and £4O. Arrived.—Alexandra, from Rockhampton, City of Brisbane, from Brisbane; Amateur, from Auckland ; Mary Nicholson, from Torres Straits; Crest of the Wave, from Liverpool. Sailed. —Woodbine, for Adelaide; Vernon, for Shanghai; Eagle, for Maryborough. Sydney, December 30. The Gravina’s cargo of Chilian flour has been placed privately in one lot. The price is withheld. The market is almost bare of stocks. Arrived. —Royal Exchange, from San Francisco, with a cargo of lumber; Ettrick, from Foo-Chow-Foo; Rangatira, from Melbourne; and James Patterson, from Rockhampton. Saited. —You Yangs, • and Pat the Rover, for Melbourne. Adelaide, December 30. Little or nothing doing in business. Wheat, 7s 6d; flour, £l9 to £2O. Arrived. —Aldinga, from Melbourne. Additional items, extracted from the telegrams of Messrs Greville and Bird (Reuter’s agents:— Sydney, December 30. The Royal Exchange, from California, reports nothing loading for the colonies. California. Flour was quoted at 11 dols., and wheat at 3 dols. 7c. to Sdols. Too. Cape Otway, December 30,6.30 p.m. Inward Bound. —Edina, s.s., from Portland. Adelaide, December 80. The Aldinga is to sail for Melbourne tomorrow.

A parcel of 10,000 bushels of wheat, for delivery at the Port of Onkaparinga, was quitted to-day, it is believed at prices ruling in adelaide.

8 p.m. The following important .information has just been ascertained;—The "Victorian ■ Government, anticipating a largely increased revenue from their new Land Bill, intend (after it has been passed) to reduce the duties now charged on tea, sugar, and other articles, pressing heavily on the general community, to those charged in the South Australian tariff. They also intend to extend the tariff to goods now admitted free, so as to assimilate the same to the tariff of this colony. This, it is thought, will tend to adjust the border difficulty between South Australia and Victoria.

Cleared Out.—Derwent, for Sydney, with pro l duce.