DIRECT AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1251, 21 April 1880, Page 2

DIRECT AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

(REUTER'S telegram per press association. ) Sydney, April 20. The International Exhibition, which has been open for seven months, was formally dosed to-day by the Governor, Lord Augustas Loftus, iu accordance with the programme which was issued, and in the presence of a large number of people. The Executive Commisr sioners' address to his Excellency, which was read at the closing Gereijiony, stated that the exhibits h.-rd nrjrjj-r*;; t? j J,COn, to which 7070 ;i v .':;riis i-ii.-luiliisg "17-i3 lirnt c'.i.';:; and 2002 sfco.nl. The admissions during, the tmyan months had reached a total of j

1,022,000. The receipts Bad been under L 50,000, but it was hoped that this stim "would exgeAses. . • \ - MELBOtrBNfi, Sugars continue strong, and brislc erl-1 quiry was ejected for/2000 pockets i which were Myertisell-fp'r sstle, but have been withdrawn. v s -* ' '• ■ The directors of the Freezing Company waited upon the Commissioner of Customs, urging upon him the abolition of the stock tax, --and- - declarmgrthat-it would.be quite -impossible othecwise to establish the inditstry.* The "Cdmnifssioner said he could not ho'pe"at sent to act in request. - Apiil 21. At a Cabinet meeting held yesterday, it wqs resolved to support Sir Charles M'Mahon for the Speakership, Mi*. Lalor is also a candidate.