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October 18. Mr. Thomas reports :—Flour, Colonial, Ll7 10* ; L2O 10s to L2L for Adelaide ; oats, L 3 10s to i 3 11« ; bran, Is ; wheat, 4h 3 1 to 4* 41; hams, B|d ; bacon, 81 ; !o te se, 7d ; tnaizo, 4s 01 ; pollard, L 7 ; potatoes, L2. October 19. An influential meeting was held last ni<j : it re the Indian Famine ftelief Fund. H.s Excellency the Governor was in t e chair. A committee was appointed to obtain subsur; prions for transmission to the Mansion House Fund. The Governor headed the list in the room with L 23. Over L2OO was subscribed in the room. A man named Pearc-, living at Oroua, was fined L4O by tue local Bench for slygrog selling. Arrived—Owake, from Oamaru. At 2 33 to-day a deputation waited on Mi-. Hunter, the city number, to know why eff ct had not been given to a petition for Mr. Mackay's release. Mr. Sheehan was then interviewed. He explained that it wis necessary to obtain the depositions of the case and unbuilt them to the Solicitor-General for his opinion, after which the Governor would be advised as to the course to pursue, and his decision announced in the House at i 7.30 to-night. The deputation stated, tiat a strong feeling existed outside ; and that, .if necessary, four thousand signatures could have been obtained. Dissatisfaction was apparent when it was made known that the Governor and his Aide-de-Camp had waited until 11 o'clock last night for the petition to be presented, which was not done.