SHAREHOLDERS TRIP TO THE S. S. "SCOTIA." (From the Daily Telegraph, March 23.)

Flour is io brisk demand, £25 per ton fs readily obtained. The short shipments advised from England have given a better tone to market quotations. March 14. Adelaide flour sold at auction to-day at £23. There is some speculation in tobacco ; tens and half-pounds bought up. Keiosene oil is bought and held for 4s. Teas, quiet. Sugars, steady. March 15. Dr. Owen has been appointed health-officer at the Heads. At auction sales of tobacco tc-day, the ad vanced rates were maintained. Flour market not active, but pricei very firm. Large sales of South Australian wheat have been made at 95., . and higher rates are 'asked for expected parcels. The late Governor, Sir Richard M'Donnell. writes unfavourably of the hasty settlement of the Northern territory. Five vessels sailed for Sydney with large quantities of wheat and flour. Burra Burra copper is quoted at £104 per ton. Burra Burra shares, £95. National Bank shares, £5 2s. Wheat is freely offered at 7s 6d., without 1 bayers. In flour nothing doing. Prices at former quotations. Adelaide, March 12. The Bank of England consents to receive deposits on the Northern territory. S. J. Stuckey, a squatter, charged With the murder of a native of the far North, is remand ed till May 3. Bail was allowed, £1,000 sureties. The Moonta and Wallaroo Companies have raised the price of copper to £105 here. Flour and wheat markets quiet. No sales of flour to report. Between 20,000 'aria' 30.000 bushels wheat were sold this afternoon at 7s. Bd. and 7s. 9d, March 14. Deputy-Commissary Boss is under orders for New Zealand. A great native fight has taken place at Lake Albert. About 190 blacks were engaged ; twenty severely wounded. From Wentworth the murderer of Dowlarid and four Paro River natives reported ; also I the murder of a man between Mount Marchison and Fort Bourke. Burra Burra shares, £65. Wheat, 7s. B£d. P er bushel. Gawler fajrm ers are holding for 10s. An order for flour has been received from the Cape. Sailed : Mary Miller, for Auckland, with hay, wheat, and flour. Brisbane, Marh 12. The floods are slowly subsiding. Captain Wilkins, formerly Harbour-master at this port, was drowned at Harris's Wharf yesterday. Trade dull. Flour scarce. Best Adelaide I brands realise £25.
