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Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4174, 25 June 1885, Page 3

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I (Keoeived June 25, at 2*30 a.m.) ;': ::/'\ i! _.;;.' -: i; '„'.. JuneV23^ ; At'today's wool sales 10,700 bales were1 offered at 'auction. The market was'flat. ■• ,: - .'.,._' ! Mails dated , 16tli |fayv, p^r John Elder,' were delivered' to-day vik'NaJlesi'"^ '^„/; \J, ,'. ( ,;.:'" ' ■;.,.,.''.. ! '■..;':;-'-mom i,';-. -■;:■■ -';,. ..,; J;W© .24. :., jThe'i Orient Company's steamer Liguria am#ed with London mails to ■.'.■./.; ■■■:.. : -; ■;■. = v/Ji ; Intelligence to hand .reports that the, barque Mars, s 4B7. tons, in ballast,,from,; Melbonrne,June '4, s^as <totally wrecker, off ,'tiie Sput^.Aup^aliaripoa^^pji ll^J June. Oapt. Pringle, with the pil o fc

and two of the crew, were drowned.- ---..^ MELBOURNE, r-&**\j^ June 24. . The Union Company's steamer Tarawera sailed this evening for the t Bluff. -The same Company's steamer [ Waitara arrived from Bluff this ■ morning. The examination of the prisoners in custody for the .Simpson's Boad Bank ' robbery was continued, to-day. . The witness Yates, who has turned Queer's 'evidence, gave his, testimony,; He stated that it was he who drove the cart in which were! contained.the proceeds of the. robbery, and furnished the Court; with full details-of the manner in which .the.,;crime was conceived and. carried out. At the close of his; examination the proceedings were adjourned until-Friday next.