ADELAIDE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 271, 29 May 1865, Page 3

ADELAIDE.

May 2. The ■exports of breadstuff's for the three months ending 22nd April show a falling off of 14,663 ton# from the same time of last year. Business very quiet. Breads tuffs dull, and little doing. Wheat is quoted at 8s 4d to 8a 6d; flour, £l9 to £2olos. The cargo of timber ex Buena Vista, from Vancouver’s Island, was sold to-day at unsatisfactory rates. Weather showery j rain seems to have been general * Aeeived. —Clara, from London, with 373 immigrants. May 3. The commmission of inquiry into the late railway aocdient closed to-day. Mr Hare read along statement, in which he tried to throw the blame on the resident.engineer and foreman of the gang repairing the road. The decision of the commissioners will be sent in to the Government. ' The meeting of the shareholders of the National Banking Company, held to-day, passed off very satisfactorily | Messrs., Ascott and Blyth were reelected directors. The cargo ex Omagh, from was offered to-day by auction. Manila rope sold at £&5. Cheroots (Havanah-shaped), 61s. Crystal sugars, £33 12s. 6d. A poor sample of coffee passed at 9£d. May A The Advertiser has an able article recommending a conference of the colonics on the question of mutual defence. It recommends the formation of a league.