LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
VICTORIA. Melboubnk, April 25. Commercial—Flour nominal; £ll ss, trade transactions. Wheat wanted. New Zealand, 4s 7£d; Victorian, ss. Maize scarce, 4s to 4s 2d. Oats, offering freely at 3s 2d. Sugars moving— low counters, £B2 10s. Teas— <, medium to fine Congous are placed at Is G£d to Is Bid. Candles, Is Of, Kerosene, 2s 7£d. New Zealand pine, assorted, 9s 3d to 9s 9d. Civil service retrenchment has been commenced.
Michie has been returned for Ballarat unopposed. Porter's tender for the first 56 miles of the North-Eastern Railway has lapsed, and the deposit not accepted. Lieut. Panter of the ship Nelson, has sailed in the mail steamer with a view of bringing out the Cerebus. Seductions in the Inter-Colonial postage rate are announced to take place on the first of May. The s.s. Geelong sailed on Sunday with 100,000 ozs of gold. Severe gale in the Bay yesterday, during which the schooner Josephine sank.
Sayers, Town Clerk, Chilwell, has •disappeared. Robert Cooper, of Lygon-street, has been found dead, with his skull fractured.
Arrived—Prosperity,from Hokitika; Zephyr and Oreti from Lyttelton; Waterman, from Grrejmouth.
NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney. Arrived.—At Sydney: Washington and Kate, from Auckland. At Newcastle : City of Newcastle and Deva, /rom Lyttelton. The proposed railway loan of •£1,600,000 has been withdrawn after much warm discussion. Mr Parks's motion, for granting a pension to Mr Piunkett's widow, has been negatived. Two shocks of earthquake have been felt in the Macleay Eiver District. Wool rates are lully maintained. Maize, 3s 3d. The wife of Alderman Davies, of Eockhampton, has been found dead. Davies was arrested on the charge of having murdered her. He confessed his guilt and was committed for trial. The Eandwick Trial Stakes were ■won by Trump Card; Charlton, 2, Champagne Stakes Florence, 1; Komula, 2. St. Leger—Moselle, 1; Barbarian, 2. Publicans' Purse— Juanita, 1; Croydon, 2. Doneaster Stakes—Barbelle, 1. James Wakefield, of Bathurst. has been sentenced to death for murdering a shepherd near Mudgee. SOUTH ATJSTKALIA. Adelaide. J. H. Howe, Bootmaker, Hiudleystreet, has shot himselt dead. The Press strongly urges the construction of a telegraph line between ports Darwin and Augusta. Corn markets firm without change. Bumored reconstruction of the Cabbinet intended.
Carlton has resigned the Commissionership of Public Works.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 656, 10 May 1870, Page 3
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374LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 656, 10 May 1870, Page 3
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