Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-18

The steamship City OF Sydney, which
arrived at San Francisco Wednesday,
brought the following news
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Parliament was to be prorogued in June
The vote of f75, 600 for immigration pur
poses has been postponed
The New South Wales Fresh Food Ex-
port Company have issued their prospectus.
The new company starts with capital of
600, 600, in 10000 shares of fl0 each.
As soon as 5000 shares are applied for a
provisional directorate will be appointed,
and suitable site for carrying on the
works of the company secured in the
neighborhood of Sydney. The principal
objects of the society are to erect machin-
cry and storehouses for freezing and stor-
ing, and exporting meat and produce, so
that vessels may be loaded without delay.
The rainfall during the week ending May
ODD has been light all over the colony,
though in one or two districts in the south
some heavy showers have been experienced.
In some of the western districts frost has
affected the pasture land rather detriment-
ally but stock are reported as being in
good condition, pleuro being present in
only one district-that of Carcoar, and
fiuke having appeared only in the Glen
Innes sheep. The general prospect is
good, and any damages which have been
done by adverse weather to the agricult-
ural or pastoral interests will be remedied
by few showers.
Victoria Parliament was opened by
Commission on May 18th. Sir Charles
McMahon was elected Speaker of the As.
sembly. Eighty-five members were pres
ent out of Sc, OF whom 46 sat on the Min
isterial benches and IS on the Opposition.
Next day the Governor delivered his
speech. The first duty OF the House will
be to submit measure of constitutional
reform.
Owing to the strike Of miners at New
castle coal has became so scarce i'll Mel
bourne that it was feared the city would
be without gas.
The agricultural statistics for Victoria,
for the year ending March 81, 1880, show
that the total quantity of land und der till
age in lS79-S0 was ,6Sl, 400 acres, as COM
pared with 1909, 27S acres in 1859 The
gross product of wheat was 500, 737
bushels in 1859, and 9, 407, 503 bushels in
lS79-SO, the increase being 3, ;349 766 BUSH
els. Last years yield averaged 1873 bush
els to the acre, the average in 1883 being
only SIS bushels.
The Hon. Neil Black, NJ. L. c., died on
the 10th at his residence, Mount Noorat,
Western District, aged rs years. He was
a Colonist of forty-one years standing,
and had represented the Western Province
in the Legislative Council for twenty one
years.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Marine Board directs that, in future
vessels must be bearded not less than two
miles from the outer end Of the Semaphore
jetty, and calls attention to the by laws
providing for penalties for neglect regard
ing pilotage.
A letter from Major-General Robert
Cadell, at Madras, states that the Neither
lands Indian Government have written to
Cadell the Murray explorer fate. He
says that in March, 1879, Cadets vessel,
the Gem, was near Key Islands, and one
evening some of the crew tour of whom
had been arrestedl state they heard six
successive shots from a revolver. They
looked in the cabin and saw Cadet weller
ing in his blood, and seaman named Pen
man at the door, brandishing a weapon.
He took possession of the dollars and
other valuables, and being armed, forced
the crew by threats to man the boats, and
scuttled the ship with the body still in the
cabin.
DIR. Schomburgk has received the seed
of two new varieties of wheat from Yer
moat, which are now acknowledged to be
superior to all others.
j. S. Webb, Secretary of the Dunedin
Chamber Of Commerce, has disappeared.
A salmon weighing seven pounds has
been taken from the Grey river.
The fine weather is causing a much
larger area than usual to be plowed.
The crops of the whole colony last year
were: Wheat, 7,6lo,0l2 bushels oats.
1902, COZ bushels; barley, l,75l ,432.
Total, q, 424, 05l. Very satisfactory figures
in themselves, if prices were only as salts
factory. The increase in wheat, as COM
pared with 1879, is l, $50, 40S bushels in
oats, 1857, 02l bushels and in barley,
l,04l ,657 bushels. OF potatoes, the total
crop is 1852 tons, and the increase on
last year, 33, 303 tons. The total area I'M
der crop this year, exclusive of grasses, is
9l3 764 acres, and the increase 81, $40
acres. The number of holdings had in.
creased from q ,054 in 1879 to %, 100 in
1880 so that in every way there has been
a great expansion of our agricultural opera
tions, as well as remarkable yield.