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Auckland, June 8. The chairman of tbe Auckland Steam Packet Company contradicts the statement that the company are negotiating for the purchase of the Hero. A suggestion to that effect had been made, but the company had taken no action in the matter. The steamer Llewellyn, purchased by the company, will cost, with alterations, about £13,000. Her tonnage is 298 register. A.t a sale of Yarraville sugars to-day the bidding was dull. The prices realised were £28 10s to £34 sa. Mr J. O. Sextie, mining* agent and sharebroker, died this morning, under circumstances leading his friends to fear that he had taken strychnine. He had latterly been in straitened circumstances. He leaves a wife and four children unprovided for. Napier, June 8. Arrived—Countess of Kintore, with immigrants. The mate of the Mary Melville, from Lyttelton, was washed overboard on her voyage here during the late gale and drowned. The gale is abating rapidly. Wellington, June 8. The Post says it is informed on good authority that Mr Vogel's resignation is in the hands of his colleagues, to be used according to their discretion. The Elibank Castle, wrecked on Ninety Mile beach, near Timaru, was insured in the South British for £750, and the New Zealand for £750. Her cargo, which is general, was insured for £470 in the South British, and £250 in the National. Arrived—The Tararua, from Lyttelton. TiMARTT, June 8. Richard Danvers Thompson, late secretiry of the Timaru Artillery Volunteers, has been charged with embezzling the funds of the corps, and remanded. Dunedin, June 8. Mr Reeves' motion in the Provincial Council, "That it is desirable that all toll bars adjacent to the city should be moved to a distance of two miles from the town belt," was lost. Mr Ireland moved an amendment, which was affirmed, while Mr Reeves was talking to another member. The surprise made him vexed, and he attacked Messrs Bastings and Reid, and it was rather warm, while it lasted, between these three. The second reading of the Peninsula Ocean I Beach Railway Bill was negatived last evening by a- majority of one.
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Press, Volume XXIII, Issue 3057, 9 June 1875, Page 2
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