AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1229, 20 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY CABLE. —MtJTte’S tfELEGIUMS). MELBOURNE, This Day. The Subscriptions on behalf of the widows ahd orphans at Creswick already amount to £6OOO, and are expected to reach £lO,OOO. The Melbourne Manager of the National and Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), I'eports of the local produce market as follows :—Wheat, per bushel, shipping, 4s to 4s 9d, the market is void of competition; barley, malting, firm at 3s 9d to 4s ; New Zealrnd oats, sluggish, feeding qualities, duty paid, 3s 9d ; milling ditto, 4s 3d ; New Zealand oats, Under bond, steady a.t 9s OJd 5 and New Zealand bacon at 8d per lb, Subscriptions for relief of the widows and orphans of the miners who recently lost their lives at Creswick now amount to £9200. Arrived—This morning ; Manapouri, from the Bluff. Sailed—This morning ; Wairarapa, for tile Bluff. , r The BaUws.]- Management Bill recently laid or. the table of the House has been circulated. It proposes the appointment of a Railway Board, the members of which shall be removable by Government. The “Argus” to-day pronounces the measure a sham, declares it an insult to the community, and demands that it be taken back and recast. IbELAiDE, Dec. 19. Accounts to hand of the what crop are less favorable than was anticlpatea. In some parts of the colony the yield will only be half a bushel to the acre, in others the crop will not be worth harvesting.