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(From the Independent.) Melbourne via Dunedin, Monday. The s.s. Omeo arrived at the Bluff early this morning from Melbourne. The Victorian lierbv was won by My dram ; tbe Port Philip Stakes by Barb, Glencoe second. On the sth January, Mc*Meckan, Blackwood & Co. bought tbe Tararua, Rangitoto, and Claud Hamilton. 7'he Governor of Tasmania is now in Melbourne, and with tbe Go-, vernor of Victoi-ia visited the Theatre Royal last night. The house was crammed. The weather is very hot and dry; but the crops are a good average yield. -
Nine vessels are chartered;' and others wanted to load wheat at Adelaide for London.
Sergeant Cleary has arrested Rutherford, tbe bushranger, after a desperate fight. Cleary shot Rutherford's horse, and then dismounted, and chased him two days on foot throusrh the bush.
Captain Ferguson has been appointed to the command of the s.Si Tararua, and Capt. Hagley of the RangitotQ. The captain of the Claud Hamilton has not yet been appointed. The Otago sails for Japan. The Ta.r°.rua leaves Melbourne on the loth for the Bluff, and tbe Gothenburg on the 27th for New Zealand ports. The Tararua is being overhauled.
The Vataura proceeds to London via "Wellington and the Straits of Magellan, and not via Melbourne, as previously advertised. "
The market quotations are flour £12 10s; fine wheat, ss; oats, in better favor, a parcel of .8000 bushels brought 3s 8d; bags, Is; cornsacks, in trade parcels, worth 16s; sugars, firm at the advance recently established.
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Wanganui Herald, Issue 505, 14 January 1869, Page 2
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