AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 11 May 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

' Sidney, May, 7. _ Arrived, Union Company’s steamship Wakatipu, t otn New Zealand. , Adelaide, May 7. Adelaide Cup : Fristrater, first ; Rivalry, second ; Glenormiston, thir I Adelaide wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 4d per bushel nominal ; "flour, LlO 5i to LlO 7s 6d . Freights from Adelaide to London, 37s 6d to 42s 6d. . May 8. A crowded meeting, held last night, adopted resolutions denouncing certain clauses in the new Licensing Bill, which are calculated to suppress Sunday lectures. The Hon. Mr Bowie Wilson was in the chair, and Mr David Buchanan, M. L. A., Mr Charles Bright fie Free'bought lecture, and the Rev, J . Bowie spoke at the meeting. G. R. Dibhs, defendant in the great slander case, has been arrested and his furniture attached for payment of Shep herd’s costs. Melbourne. May 7. The Barque British, Queen, which left •Charente on January 2ntb lor Melbourne put in at the Cape, owing to her crew having mutinied and broached the cargo. Subscriptions to the Meat Freezing C unpany having reached L 50.000, operations will be commenced immediately. Obituary—Mr J. Orr, cx-member for Moria. May 8. Arrived-—Union Company’s steamship Taiaroa, from Bluff. The barque Binenden. which arrived from Java with serious cases of thvor on board, has been placed in quarantine. A bottle has been found on the beach at Portland containing a paper signed “ John Webster,” and dated February 25th, 1880, stating that the ship Knowsley Hall was wrecked on the Crczets ; ti.at all on board perished except three, who are destitute, and subsisting on fish . It is l>elieved to be a hoax . Brisbane, May 8. A meeting was held here yesterday for the purpose of starting a Meat Freezing Company, towards which L 50,000 has already been subscribed.