REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
■' ■ [new ZEALAND PKESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, JIII3- IS. Thn arbitrators have awarded to the lojtos Straits A:;s il Company the sum of iJOjt) .is salvage tor saving the vessel Ocean. The openi 'g of the Sydney Exhihi tion lies lieeu definitely fixed for the Ist of Comber.
Sir Henry Parkes’s resolutions in the Assembly were carried by 23 to 13. The debate on Mr Docker’s counterresolutions in the Council was adjourned in consequence of the death of Sir Dcas Thompson. Henuessy’s brandy (case), £1 12s 6d quarter cask, 9s per gallon \ Kerosene (diamond), Is 6d; Devoe’s, Is 9jd ; Patna rice, £22 ; New Zealand wheat, 'ls 3d ; oats, 2s 6d ; maize, 2s 7d Raven twist' tobacco, 'ls 7d ; sugar (CorapatPys No. 1), £35 : candles (J.R.J), to 8-|d ; other lines unchanged.
The Commercial Ranking Company of Sydney have declared a dividend of 28 per cent, and increased the capital to £600,000.
Adelaide, July 18. Wheat, 4s lOd per bushel. Melbourne, July 17. Negotations are proceeding for the amalgamation of the Commercial, Australian, and European Bants and for the transference of the latter to the, former.
Breadstuffs are advancing, in conse quence of cable advices.
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Kumara Times, Issue 874, 19 July 1879, Page 2
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