AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY CABLE.—REUTER’S TELEGRAMS), SYDNEY, March 19, Arrived, yesterday- Steamship Hauroto, from Wellington, March 20. It is understo d that Mr Copeland, Minister of Works, is at once resigning his portfolio, in consequence of the strictures passed on his conduct at the banquet on Saturday last (St. Patrick's Day) when he was intoxicated, and made an injudicious speech in favor of Irishmen, and justified his refusal to grant a free railway pass to Redmond. MELBOURNE, March 20. An extensive fire has occurred at Messrs Crispe and Swinbourne’s lumber store, situate in Bourke-street, near Goldsborough. The wool warehouses and a large stock of timber has been completely destroyed. The Government has received a communication from New Zealand to the effect that the Minister cannot attend the proposed postal conference owing to the approaching Parliamentary sessions.

Sailed, this morning—Manapouri, for the Bluff.

Arrived, this afternoon—P. and O. Co,’a steamship Australia, with the Suez mail, which left London, February 9. The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand reports of the local grain market as follows :— Wheat, dull ; shipping parcels, 5a 3d to 5s 4d ; malting barley, 5s 3d to 5s 6d ; New Zealand oats, quieter and weaker ; feeding, 2s lOd to 3s 3d ; milling, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 3d to 2s lOd. March 21. Sir Bryan O'Loghlcn declares that Mr Gillies’s recent statement regardidg the amount of the last loan, which is available for railways, is misleading.