Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2582, 17 April 1877, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

Per s.s. Easby ai Wellington.

(Peb Pkess Agency.)

Melboubne. The revenue for the quarter ending, March 31st was £1,161,608 ; expenditure, £1,105,138. The revenue shows an increase of £46,373 on the corresponding quarter of last year, and an increas.e of £176,863 for the year ending March. The ship Linguist has been released from quarantine. - The German corvette Hertha, homeward bound, was spoken by the Portuguese ship Aloa. A new automatic buoy of American invention, for prevention of shipwreck, was fixed in the South Channel on Saturday. The Supreme Court granted a rule nisi for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in Langton v. Syme.

Laby, publisher of . the theatrical bill, the " Coquette," has been fined £5, aad £2 costs, for having an unregistered press and types in his possession. Wheat firmer, 6s 3d to 6s 6d; flour, £13 17s 6d \i £14; maize, scarce, at 3s Bd. : Good enquiry for Hennessy's case brandy, also a large demand for kerosene, prices for which have upward tendency. Adelaide. The combination between the banks has been broken through, and the Union Bank intends reducing its rates for deposits. Next Saturday, Monday and Tuesday are the days fixed for the All England cricket match. Wheat has been sold at 6s, 4|d and has an upward tendency. The rainfall to the end of March is over seven inches, being the heaviest fall ever known. . " ' Launceston. Simonsen's Opera Company are playing to overflowing houses. Hundreds turned away nightly.