TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
_o— Wellington’, Thursday 23. The River Pollution Bill passed as reported from Council Committee. Shepherd’s, proposition to subsidise gold duty and goldfields revenue as rates adopted This will give goldfields a share of gold revenue—two pounds to one ; municipalities to receive pound for pound rates. Dunedin, Thursday, 5 p.m. In tho Interprovincial Foot-ball Match Auckland only scored half a point, Dunedin nine and a half. The Ringaronraa arrived with English mail; passage, ninety-two hours. Freeman won the Goodwood Stakes. Aventunere, the Cup. The ironclads, Iron Duke and Vanguard, collided off Wicklow. The Vanguard sunk; all hands saved. Two ship knackers were convicted and imprisoned for sending rotten ships to sea. The Lord Mayor’s banquet to Mayors cost LIBO,OOO. The Cambridgeshire was wrecked in Bass’s Straits. All hands were saved. Gold has been struck in the Magdala reef at 1680 feet deep. I Richmond won the Randwiok Plate, three miles, in five minutes and forty-three seconds, beating Lurline and Kingshorongh. Glinn, exchange clerk, Bank of Victoria, stole tho two thousand notes. Sixteen hundred have been recovered. Good news is reported from the Palmer. The reefs are looking well. Ten thousand more Chinese are coming.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 701, 24 September 1875, Page 2
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