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MELBOURNE CUP WON BY GLENCOE. Duwedin, This Day, 11.20 a.m. The Eob Boy, steamer, arrived at Port Chalmers at 4.50 p.m. on Saturday, from Melbourne. Her news is to Nov. 7, The Otago was to leave Melbourne for New Zealand ports on Nov. 10. /fjEhe Melbourne Cup was won by Mr Tait's Glencoe, by one length j time, 3 rain. 42 sees. Strop was second, Shenandoah third, and Tim Whiffler fourth. Twenty-five horses started. The Swell and Monkey were scratched. There was great excitement in Sydney at the result, especially among those who had accepted the long odds offered against Glencoe sometime agol The Melbourne quotationsior flour were £13 10a to £14 ; wheat, 6s 3d j maize, 4s. Sydney, Nov. 6. Lord Burgbley returns to England by the mail steamer Bombay. The Government has decided to reinstate Mr Duncan as Collector of Customs. Business ia stagnant. The Chilian flour ex Miguelite sold at £11 ss. The Isabella's cargo is ordered to Melbourne. Wool sales were a failure ; 50 bales vcere sold out of 800 offered. The Hannah Nicholson's cargo of tea sold at £4 18b to £7 per chest. Adelaide, Nov. 6. The sale of 13,000 bushels of wheat at 5s 6d, for export, is reported on reliable authority.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 160, 16 November 1868, Page 3
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