AUSTRALIAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 44, 20 February 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN

[Per Easbt.] « Adelaide. The South Australian Insurance Company shows a net profit for the half year for £7800. At a meeting of the Adelaide Steamship Company the Chairman stated their steamers were insured under the collision clause, which protected them to the extent of twothirds of their value. A heavy demand for wheat is springing up from Sydney, owing to advices that New Zealand crops are damaged by rains; Large sales have taken place at 6s 2d. George Fife Augus offers to give another £1000 to the Union College, if the general public will subscribe a similar amount. BRIaBANE. The steamer Thales arrived at Cooktown with 470 Chinese, making 1300 Chinese landed at that port within a fortnight. The Thales returns to Bong Kong. Her advices state that serious riots have occurred at' Japan. Several thousand men are in arms against the Government. The imposition of the land tax is the cause of the disturbance. A serious fire occurred at Shanghai, six lives were lost. Property to the value of £40,000 was destroyed. At a meeting of the National Agricultural Society called to consider the proposition of the New South Wales Association to remove the prohibition on stock, a resolution was carried unanimously, That after the information received of the recent out-break of disease ii Europe, this Society does not feel warranted in recommending the Government to remove the prohibition on the importation of stock. An amendment was moved for nine months quarantine and proper examination, but was withdrawn after a long discussion.