LONDON.
Br Electric Telegraph.—Coitright.
(Rbutkb's Telegrams.)
September 29. At the wool auction to-day 11,200 bales were offered. A fair demand was experienced. September 30. A further quantity of the Mataura's mutton was sold to-day at an average of 5d per pound. The Mataura's sheep are pronounced by competent judges to be over-fat. A portion of the cargo of mutton ex steamship Garonne, from Melbourne, was sold to-day at an average of s|d per pound. The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of five per cent, for the pa9t half-year. The Government has issued a notification announcing the existance of a smallpox epidemic at Cape Town, and declaring the Cape to be an infected district. Mr E. D. Gray, MP. for Carlow, who was sentenced in August last to three months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of £5700 for publishing in the Freeman's Journal certain articles reflecting upon tbe judges and jurymen engaged in a recent agrarian murder trial, has been released from custody. The Australian cricketers sailed for New York by the steamer Alaska to-day. The wool sale to-day was quiet. 6,300 bales were catalogued. j Michael Walsh, recently found guilty of an agrarian murder in Ireland, has been sentenced to death.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3506, 2 October 1882, Page 3
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