CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
[Bi Telegraph.]
Wellington, January 6th. The correspondent of the Press' Agency, writing from Capetown on November 21st, sends the following additional information:— The first Parliamentary elections take place to-morrow, the 22nd, for the Legislative Council. The House of Assembly elections are postponed until January. Exceptional weather has prevailed here lately. An immense quantity of rain haa fallen, and it has been colder than for many years past. Our summer appears to have now regularly set in. , . The wool season has just commenced. It is later than usual, but has been retarded by the cold weather. No sales of importance have « yot taken place, but prices' generally rule firni at last rates. ' ' " Our harvest promises well, and grain and forasre are likely to rule lower. Our present . stocks, with the exception of maize, are larger*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 5268, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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