AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2656, 24 September 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Ekuteb’s Agency.] Commercial. Sydney, Sept. 23. Henessy’s brandy, case, 355; bulk, quarters, 22s 6d ; Patna rice, per ton, £l7; Sugar Company’s No 1 pieces, per ton, £35 maize, per bushel, 3s ; candles, D.R.J.’s, per lb, 7fd; D.E.O.'s, 7^d; tobacco, Eaven’s twist, per lb, Is 4£d. Arrived,yesterday afternoon —Pacific mail steamer Zealandia, from Auckland ; this morning—Union Company’s steamship Wakatipu, from Wellington. Small Pox. Two fresh cases of smallpox—one at Ultimo, and the other in Woolloomooloo —have been ascertained. The sufferers have been quarantined. The police have reported to the health officers that a woman who has been living in an infected house in York street, which was isolated by order of the Board, broke through the quarantine enclosure to-day. The matter is now under the consideration of Government.

Australian Weather Exchange. Light N.W. rains are falling in the North-west District of New South Wales and over the south of Victoria and Tasmania. Barometer Portland, 30.0 ; Hobart, 29.9 ; Sydney, 29.9. New Zealand ShippingMelboubne, Sept. 23Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association, London, Sept. 21st —Arrived—Otago from Timaru, left July 2; Alastor, from Wellington, left June 13; Andes, at Dunkirk, from Timaru, left June 19 ; Caberfeidht, at New York, from, Auckland, left June 22. Bkisbane, Sept. 23. News has reached here that Inspector Kaye, of the police, has been murdered by blacks at Woollgus, in this colony.