AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1225, 14 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY CABLE.—REUTER’S TELEGRAMS), MELBOURNE, Dec. 13. Wheat quoted at 5s 8d to 5s sd, for shipping parcels prices were scarcely maintained. Malting barley firm at 3s 10d to 4s; New Zealand oats very quiet; feeding qualities are worth 3s 9d to 4s 2d, and milling from 4s 2d to 4s 4d. Three of the bodies of the miners drowned by the flooding of the Australasian Mine at Creswick have been recovered this evening. The water in the shaft is being reduced rapidly, and the work of repairing the tubes which supply the working with fresh air is now being proceeded with. Messrs Goldsborough and Co. (Limited), report a large attendance of buyers at their wool sale to-day, and a brisk competition for greasy wools realised from 8s to 12s Bd, and washed from 16s to 23s o|d. Five thousand bales were sold. The Union Company’s new steamship Hauroto, from Glasgow, Get. 25, arrived today. The Union Company’s steamship Ringarooma, arrived here this afternoon. It is announced that the Union steamship Company has purchased the steamship Suva, 293 tons, from Messrs J. McEwan and Co., by whom she has for some time past been employed in trade between Fiji and Melbourne. The Company intends employing one of its large steamers on that line, and the Suva will be engaged in| the Islands as a feeder to trade. It has further transpired that the Company have made arrangements to open a branch establishment in Melbourne on January Ist, under the management of Mr David Mills. The divers attached to H.M.S. Cerberus were sent to Creswick to-day, to assist in rescuing the miners in the flooded Australasian Mine. The apparatus, however, with which they were provided proved inadequate to enable them to reach the place where the men were at work. The divers endeavored to communicate with the imprisoned miners, but their signals were unanswered, and it is believed that the miners have perished. There is great excitement and distress in the Creswick district. The Australasias. Mine Accident. MELBOURNE, 10.40 ».m. A telegram just received from Creswick reports that five men have been saved from the Australasian Mine, but the remaining 21 were all dead when the relievers readied them. c. i , This day. bailed — Yesterday : Steamship Ringarooma, for the Bluff. Yesterday’s announcement of her arrival was incorrect. The announcement of the finding of three bodies m the Australasia Mine is now contradicted. Divers have been found to be utterly useless, and foul air has so far arrested the progress of the relief party. According to the latest reports the’tniners are all entombed alive in the eleven (jir) works. ' 7 It is announced that Sir Chas. Standen, M.L.C., has definitely decided to retire from political life. The debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr Munro’s motion was, last night, further adjourned. Telegrams from Creswick, timed V'a.m., report that relievers have ascended the shaft of the mine all cheering lustily, and have stated that when in the main drive near the eleven jump works, the emtombed miners repeated, “ All right, we are ail safe." It is hoped they may be rescued within an hour. Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds of people are oollooted.

„ SYDNEY, This Day. Parliament will be summoned to meet on the 3rd January. The Parkes’ Ministry will probably resign before that date, and an nounce that fact on the meeting of the House,