AUSTRALIAN.
Br Electric Telegraph—-Copyright. [Reuter’s Agency.] [Received Jan. 23, 1884, 1,10 p.m.] Shipping. Melbourne, Jan. 22. Sailed, this afternoon—Union steamship Manapouri, for the Bluff.
Suspected Murder. A case of suspected robbery and murder is reported to have occurred near Geelong. Francis Beech, a farmer living at Retavol, was found to have been murdered in his house, and his wife was found in a dying state. The house had been ransacked throughout. No arrests have yet been made. GrainThe Melbourne manager of the Na« tional Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports of the local grain market as follows Wheat is in moderate enquiry at 4s to 4s Id ; malting barley, 4s to 4s 6d, quotations nominal; New Zealand oats, feeding sorts, are in favor of buyers at 2s lid to 3s Id ; milling, do, are in request at reduced prices of 3s Id to 3s 2d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 5d to 2s Bd, prices are barely maintained.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3371, 23 January 1884, Page 2
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162AUSTRALIAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3371, 23 January 1884, Page 2
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