TELEGRAMS.
Per Press Association WELLINGTON, June 19. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 16th instant:—" The-wool market is unchanged. The total quantity catalogued to date is 916,000 bales, and the total quantity withdrawn to date is 15,000 bales. Yesterday, about £700 was paid at the Custom House here as duty on under proof for spirits, and to-day, up to a shorty time before closing, the amount of duty paid on that account was nearly £5000. Nearly all the tea has been cleared from bond at this port. An old settler named Captain Edwin Stafford, well known in connection with the shipping trade between this Colony and Newcastle was found dead in bed this morning at the Lower Hutt. • Death was caused from natural causes.
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Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4170, 20 June 1885, Page 3
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TELEGRAMS.
Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4170, 20 June 1885, Page 3
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