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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1062, 20 July 1883, Page 3

Government have decided not to esta-' blish penny postage, as,it would involve a loss to the revenue of £20,000. The Crown Land Sale at Auckland on Wednesday went off very well, the upset prices being frequently doubled and trebled. The total proceeds amounted to £6OOO. We learn from Auckland that the Frozen Meat and Storage Company have agreed with the directors of Fisher and Company, Limited, to purchase their business plant and property, &c., with the view of amalgamating the two businesses. The terms have not transpired. Government have furnished the Wanganui Dairy . Factory; Company free of charge, with plans and specifications of a cheese factory capable of taking the milk of 800 cows. The directors of the companj* met at Okoia on Wednesday and fixed upon a site for the works. A distressing case of death from burning is reported from Canterbury, the victim being a child, about two years old, son of Joseph Urich, a German residing at East Oxford. Its clothes caught fire during the absence of the mother, and the child died after two hours agony. • Dunedin having'£been just furnished with a sensational tragedy is to be: supplied with a cause celebre of another isort, in the shape of a divorce suit, to be tried before Judge Williams next month. The petitioner, George Ballingwall Stewart, of Victoria, seeks to have his marriage with Lucia Stewart annulled on the grounds of her adultery with William Hay Dickson, and claims £2OOO damages. The main issue is as to the custody of the child born of the marriage. The disclosures are expected to be more than ordinarily interesting.