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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1840, 29 June 1874, Page 2

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[Anglo-australian peess tblegeaph AGENCY.] THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL PER CITY OF IDELAIDE. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE EUROPEAN MAIL AND HOME NEWS Auckland, June 27. London, May 5. A Russian squadron will shortly visit Australia and New Zealand. The Agent-General for New Zealand has completed arrangements with Messrs Shaw, Thompson, and Moore, ironworks agents, for 1000 tons of rails for shipment during the year. The report of the Otago and Southland Investment Company shows a total of L 6156, including L4lO brought from last accounts, and recommends a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and an appropriation of Lsooto the Reserve Fund. The March California mails were delivered in London, May 4, being three daj's overdue. The Wool Importers Committee have decided that a third series of Bales shall commence on August 18th. The' Claimant has lost four stone in weight since his incarceration. A pamphlet entitled " Handyside," on an improved method of overcoming steep gradients or railways, has been written by H. Handy side, late Provincial Engineer to the Government of Nelson. A great number of people, described as the very bone and sinew of the Island population, are preparing to leave Skye for New Zealand. The following persons in New Zealand have won prizes in tha Art Union of London : — W. Jamieson, E. C. Stevens, and D. J. Turnbull, Christchurch ; James Gorie, J. Kissling, Blenheim; E. Wickes and Charles Woolcock, Greymouth ; R, R. Burn, Nelson ; and E. Pearce, Wellington.