AMERICAN.
Letters from persons desirous of eliciting information on emigration to Australia and New Zealand appear in San Francisco papers. Unfavourable and untruthful replies are given in order to discourage them. Halifax, June 16th.- The Fishery Commission provided for by Beatty, of Washington, met yesterday with closed doors. The case of Great Britain was riled. The Americans have several days to put in answer. It is understood that the claim for Canadian fisheries, embraced in the case filed by Great 'Britain amounts to 20,000,000 dols. A robbery took place from a mail car in transit from London to Paris. Bonds valued at £70,000 were carrried off. A lire occured at Montreal, destroying 60 houses, and property valued at a hundred thousand dollars. A contract has been entered into by the Secretary of the United States Treasury with Rothschilds and eight other great financial firms for the sale of four per cent thirty year consols at par in coin. Five millions will be applied for resumption of greenbacks and twenty millions for redemption of ,six per cent bonds.
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Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2297, 16 July 1877, Page 2
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