AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2842, 4 May 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Eeutbe’s Ague or.] Grain* ' Melboukne, May 3. Malting barley is firm at 4s 7d to 4s 9d ; shipping wheat is quoted at 6s 6d, but prices are .irregular; Hew Zealand oats are quiet at from 3s Id to 4s for feed, and, 4s Id to 4s 3d for milling, The Smallpox Scare* l The premises in .Swanston' street 1 ' occupied by Nimbs as a shop and residence have been placed in quarantine by the Health .Officer, as it is rumored Mrs Nimbs is suffering from smallpox, Considerable excitement has been caused by this reported fresh outbreak of variola. A report is current to-night, ho\yever, to the effect that it is doubtful whether the case is smallpox. Political*

A caucus of Constitutionalists was hold yesterday at which it was decided to support tho Government against MiBerry’s no confidence motion. Ministers now expect a majority of fifteen. Wreck of the GarstangIntelligence is to hand that the barque Garstang, 301 tons, has become a total wreck at Amoy, China. Her officers and crew were sared. ShippingAdelaide, May 3. Arrived, this morning—Orient Company’s s.s. Orient, from Plymouth, which port she left on March 25.

A boy in a country school was reading the following sentence :—“ Tho lighthouse is a land-mark by day and a beacon, by night,’’ and ho rendered it thus, ; “ Tho lighthouse is a landlord by day, j and a deacon by night.”