SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.
New Pnmoiith. Twelve more N stive prisoner-* will be brought in from the camp to night. The Natives are becoming insolent to the guards, and. say all kinds of ins ilting things, :<s If to provoke them t > anger PARI I lilEiTi. Y . In the House to-day, the report of the Native Affairs < , otrimitt: j e com. pletely exonerated Mr Sheehan from the char pes made in the petition of the Hev. W. Gibbs. ' The Government, stated,that where the joint revenue of an amalgamated post and tel graph offL-e paid expenses, the public would not be charged the" sixpence extra The total annual cost of public education, Government said* was £449,022. The Public: W :rks Bill- passed & seccond time. - The 'Star' correspondent telegraphs, under date, Wellington, August.27 r A good deal of feeling was manifested last niglit upon the financial Arrangements B.il, and the porvisions therein contained, to take away 20 per cent of the Land Fund, and redui e t'..e sub* sidies one halt. The division on the Land Fund was a tie. The Chairman of Committee gave his casting vote with the Government. Afterwards, on the motion of reeommital of the_ clause, the Government beat up their supporters, and won by 10. At the last all the northern men, except Sir Gjorge Grey, voted to take the Land Fund. MARKRTS . •- Prime beef, £1 0s to £1 5s Od per lOulb ; mutton, 2§d to 3d per lb ; good sample milled wheat, 4s to 4s fid ; iowls wheat, 2a 6d to 3s ; feed oats, Is 5d to Is 6d, milled, Is 7d to Is 8d ; malt barley, 2s 9d to 3s 3d, feed, Is 9d to 2o 6d ; potatoes, £2 5s to £2 7s 6dJj grass bay. £2 li)s, oaten hay, £3 ; medium wheat, 3s 9d to 4s ; straw, £2 ; bran, £3 5s ; pollard, £4 ; flour, £lO to £ll Os ; oatmeal, £9 lis; pearl barley, £18; onions, 7s 6d to 8s ; cheese, sd; bacon (rolled), 9d ; hams, 9|d; sides bacon, BJd (grain fed) ; chaff, £2 Iss.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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338SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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