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Bisnoir, August 18, There are heavy floods. All communication v stopped, and the river is still rising, but no serious damage has-been done. WitrnroToir, Augustls. Messrs, Dimmer and Reeves quote wheat at 6s 9d; flour, £13 15s; oats, 6s to 5s 3d ; maile, 6s 3d to ss 6d; potatoes, £4 15s; butter, lid; ob.eese-.9id. August 18. Returns laid before Parliament show the expenditure on the Civil servioe list for 1872-73 to be £24,975. WiveiNUl, August 16. Beef is 16s per 100 lbs; mutton; 2*d to Sid per fc. Ohbistchukoh,1 August 16. Flour firm, at £11 10*; wheat, 4s to 4s 10d: oats, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. .. ■ . August 18. There were over 25,000 applications for the 15,000. new issue of shares in the New Zealand (Shipping Company; DuKmnr, August 15. A good trade is being done in flour.; inquiry at £12 10s to £13 10s. Wheat soaroe, at 5s 6el. August 18. Fox challenges Harrison to run him for £100* side, either in Dunedin or Christohorob, 120, 440, or 880 yardß, over hurdles. : Pobt Chaimibs, August 18, Tho Ai P ot..Eiw., -*~»-xwponl.hu awiyed. .„. after a passage of 97 day*. Two mates, named Sing and Moore, belonging to the lighter Clutha, coming from Dunedin,. quarrelled and rolled overboard. was drowned. Arrived: Phoebe, from liyttelton.' She averaged Hi knots throughout the passage. ;. .; \ Napub,August 18. - A petition in favor of a Municipality is uunxerouslj signed. A public meeting is. called for Friday next. AuOKtAVS, August 15. Dunedin flour, £13.10s to £14; oats, 4i 3d to 5s 3d. . August 18. Mr. Saunders reports buyers of South British at £3; Caledonians, £18. Some burglars entered . the Custom-house, but found no booty, and then robbed si store.' -, Gbahamstown, August 18. Bishop Moran has arrived. The Catholic residents presented him with an address. , • „,.- ■>■- r.■ .' * Murraut and Troutman, for stealing amalagam from the Pumping-Association's battery, were each sen* tenoed to six months' imprisonment. :-. , • ■
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Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1661, 19 August 1873, Page 3
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