AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1155, 23 September 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

BY SMCnUC TELXOBAFM.—(cOPYKICin). (aICTBB's TILKOBAMS.) RICHVgD Sept. 23, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 21. The art collection in the Garden Palace was insured for £3,800. This, as already stated, wae the only insurance on the building or its contents. Received Sept. 22nd, 1.40 p.m. Arrived, this afternoon, the City of Sydney from San Francisco via Auckland. The whole of the Garden Palace was completely destroyed thio morning, and within an hour after the commencement of the fire a few portions of the brickwork was all that remained standing. There was no insurance upon the building or the contents, except the art collection. The calculation of the lose is incalculable owing to the destruction of Government documenta, many of which cannot bo replaced. All the papers belonging to the last census, and plans and records of railway services perished in the flames, and the collootlon in the Technological Museum will be difficult to replace. The flames spread with great rapidity, and rose to an immense height, being visible for miles round. The origin of the ffre is entirely unknown, but it is hinted that it is duo to incendiarism. MELBOURNE, Sept. 22. A report is current here this evening that O’Farrell, who was recently sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Melbourde Gaol for bis attack on Archbishop Gould has attempted to commit suicide. m BRISBANE, S»pt. 22. Tbo steamship Ganges, front Molbeuthe te

Calcutta, with a cargo of horses, has been wrecked on the coast near here ; no lives are lost. Messrs. C. S. Ross and Co., of this city, report having sold the cargo of kauri timber, ex Robin Hood, at the following average prices per 100 feet superficial—Sawn boards, one inch, 2s; dressed boards, 28 inches, 23s per 100 feet lineal : tongued and grooved flooring, 7by 7-8 inch, 9s 9d ditto ; 4by 1J inches, 8s Od. ADELAIDE, .September 22. Wheat is rather firm at 7s ; town brands £l4 ]ss; country brands, £l3 10s. There is nothing doing in the freight market.