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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 80, 18 July 1846, Page 1

FINE PORT, light ami dark Aherry in quarter casks or bottles, Fine Claret, Sauterne, white and pink Champagtie, direct from Frauce> A few dozens of Constaatia Wine, A few dozens of very.fine old Cognac, French Lvqueurs, in assorted cases of 2 d.z. e3ch, A. few dozens fine old Hock. ALSO, A variety of other Merchandize of various description, Woollen and other Slops, Blankets, &c. Ex Nelson and Mary Catherine. To be bad of A. HORT, Sen., Laeobton Quay. Wellington, March 3, 1846. NOTICE.— OLD M\C, the Wellington Po«sit, well known as the thinnest person in Port Nicholson, wil take a BENEFIT in a TRIPE SUPPER, at the Ship Hotel, on Wednesday, July 22. Patronised on, this, the only occasion, by the Swell Mob. Tickets, Is. 6d. each, to be had at the Bar, or at Old Mac'?. Supper on Table at £ past seven. N. B.—No Dogs admitted, or persons with Maoii Spears. CUSTOM-HOUSE FORMS MAY be bad at the Office of the • Welling, ton Independent.' AGENTS FOR THE "INDEPENDENT." Mr. Burcham, River Hu.t District. Mr. Watt, Wanganui. Mr. E. Dorset, New Plymouth. Mr. Williamson, " New :C Zeslander" Office, Auckland. Mr. Elliott, '• Nelson Examiner," Office, Nelson. Messrs. Statham and Forster, " Australian Office," Sydney. John Stevens, South Australian Register Office, Adelaide. " • John George Franklin, " Cape Frontier Times OfSce.'.'Grabam'sTownjCape of Good Hope. Mr. John Cleave, General News Agent, Shoe Lane, London. DUTIES. British Spirits ss. per gallon. Foreign Spirits ss. per gallon. Tobacco manufactured Is. per lb. <• Unmanufactured 9d. per lb. Snuff 2s. per ft. Cigars 2s. per ft. Wines 20 per cent. Ale. Beer, Porter, and other! malt liquors .J 15 per cent. On all guns or weapans of any! description, or gunpowder, i 30 per cent. or any munition of war .... J On all other goods,, wares,"^ merchandise, end propeity, [ , cent> except personal baggage,living f animals, and spicie J Pedro Vinals, a bandit who had long been the [ terror of Catalonia, was executed at Genma on the 26th September. This outlaw was but 24 years of age. Having fled into France, he was claimed by the Captain General ; and was delivered up to him by the French authorities, on the 24th July, in virtue of existing treaties. He confessed, whilst > in capilla, having killed nine persons, and wounded « many more. He had joined the Carlist bands at the age of fourteen, and his life had been ever since a tissue of crimes. A new process of tanning leather is said to have 3 been discovered by Messrs. Darrow, of Dsyton, ' Ohio, by which a side of sole leather is taken in it* I raw sta'e and thoroughly finished for the manufacturer -turer in seventy two hours, and a side of upper 1 leather in about sixteen hours. Donald Ross, a Highlander, who was employed '.' as a special messenger during the Rebellion of) 745, died on the 23rd ultimo., at Kiltearn, Ross shire, in his 116 th year. The veteran enj lyeJ his health and faculties un il a few days before his death. — Edinbugh Witness. i- Mr. Sidney Bernard, ihe assistant-surgeon who 3 J volunteered his services on board the Eclair steam s I sloop, at Madeira, has f«Uen a victim to his courts ageous humanity: he died on Thursday morning, ' 1 after three days' illness.