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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 375, 6 July 1877, Page 2

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LEASES OF COLLIERY JIESEIN ENGLISH MAIL VIA 'FRISCI SUICIDE BY lIANG>,;;^ .»OtTV i Sir Dillon Pell has been called to a in the Legislative Council. Mr. Munro, the mayor of Weslp has to-day concluded arrangements v the Government as to leases of towni tions at Westport, forming part of Colliery Reserve, and in reference which a Royal Commission reported year. The following are the terms Lease to be issued for 21 years from inst. ; rents for first seven years, L">, 5 and 70s. pi-r section, according to p tion ; second seven years, one third nm third aeven years, double the rate first term ; arrears of rent to 30th ultii calculated on the basis approved by 1 Curtis, exrsuperintendent of Nclb Tiiese arrangements entirely upset recommendation of the Royal Conin sion.

July C Mr. Thomas reports :—Adelaide flo Lift to L2O ; oats, .'ls Od to 4s ; bran la Is 2d ; wheat, chick, 4s .'3d ; hams, clo lOd ; bacon, Sid ; cheese, 4s 3d to 4s Gd ; pollard, L 7 10s ; potato L 3 15s. Sailed —Transit, for Oamaru. Tue Government have been advised cablegram that the City of Sydney, \vi the English mails to 3lst May, left Si Francisco for Auckland on Juno 20 (contract time). She is due at Auckktfi on the 14th. Charles Grey, confectioner, was hc tenced this morning to two months' in prisonment, without hard labour, f< fraudulent insolvency. Thomas C. Brown, civil engineer, late in the Public Works Department, jir Engineer on the Hutt line, hung liimse this morning, with a silk handkerchief, t a fence-rail three feet high, near Join sonville.