GENERAL ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11097, 14 December 1898, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

Ecceivoil December 13, 2,42 p.ifl, " London, December 12. £ At the wool sales competition was brisk, and all classes were exceptionally a firm. t The death is announced of Sir Thomas '" Upington, ex-Premier and Attorney- ' General of Cape Colony, aged 55. „ Haire's aerator, for purifying, sweetening, and preserving low grade butter, has a been tested in Dublin, and the inventor b claims that the tests demonstrated the )\ success of tho invention. n Sydney, Tuesday. h A man named Haines died at Wagga Wagga from anthrax communicated by '■° the bite of a spider. The "Herald" states that the result h 0 of the continued unfavorable conditions t- will reduce the estimated wheat yield of or the colony to about 0,000,000 bushels. 16 The Mount Keira miners have adopted new regulations for receiving different 3e payments for large and small coal, ad weighed separately. These regulation m will form tho basis of an agreement foi c ? the whole of the southern colonies.

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