NEWS BY CABLE.
<R IS UTER'S TELEGRA MS.) St. Petersburg, May 15. Numerous destructive fires have occurred in Eastern Russia believed to be the work of incendiaries. Melbourne, Friday. A new company is forming to resuscitate the Provincial Suburban Bank, to protect the old shareholders. Adelaide, Friday. Two thousand three hundred emigrants have arrived since the Ist January. Many are unemployed. Stdnet, Friday.
The names of the new Australian cricketing taam are the following :—Messrs. Bannerman (2), Blackham, Boyle, Horan, Massie, Murdoch, Evans, Spofforth, Garrett, and Alexander. The Merchant Shipping Underwriters' Association report, under date London, April 13, the ship Jessie Headman has arrived from the Bluff.
Quotations for Hennessy’s brandy are : Case, 325. fid. to 335.; quarters, 9s. to 9s. 3d.; kerosene is selling at Is 7Jd to Is 8d ; Patna rice, £2l ; New Zealand wheat, 4s fid ; New Zealand oats, 3s ; tobacco (Haven's twist), Is fid ; candles, 7§d to BJd. The price of sugar is unchanged.
Adelaide, Friday. Flour is now quoted here at £ll per ton. Th value of wheat is unchanged.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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175NEWS BY CABLE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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