AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 307, 26 December 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE. / — - December 19.— Nogis & Co. report to-day New Zealand wheat 5s 6d Jo 6s, according to quality. Falk & Co. report twist tobacco firm, prices high. The tea market is well supplied. Prices are satisfactory to importers. Private advices from London from the Australian Agency Corporation say that the first wool sales in 1873 will be brisk, as stocks of first-class wools are scarce and the worsted" factories bare. Prices in the Melbourne wool market are depressed. The trial of Mount and Morris continued t6day. An application for adjournment was refused. The attendance at the Exibition to date has been 64,000.' ADELAIDE. December 18. — At a meeting of Wesleyan laymen they refused to identifj* themselves with the Conference hi Melbourne. They desire a Conference of their own at which laymen may attend. Mr Houghton, a Batavian merchant, is in communication with the Government relative to the settlement of the Northern territory, and the development of trade with the adjoining islands. _ Moonrider, the King of the blacks, Is dead, aged 80 years. A pack of harriers has been given to the Hunt Club. SYDNEY. The Government has circulated a Bill for the conversion of the Nominee Council into an Election Chamber. /