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[pee gkeyille's tel. Co., beuteb's agents.J Melbourne, Sept. 9. At the Intercolonial Conference, a proposition will be submitted from the U.S.N.Z. Australian Mail Ship Company to carry mails via San Francisco to Australia, with a direct branch to New Zealand. A new silver coinage is proposed for Victoria. It is proposed to lengthen the dock at Williamstown at a cost of £30,000. Peter Brown, Presbyterian minister, and William Hamill are dead. Flour, Adelaide, £13 to £15 10s; New Zealand wheat, 5s 3d ; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; Tookeys, £28 10s. Sugars are slightly easier. Sydney, Sept. 9. Sir James Martin, the Premier and the Attorney-General, Mr Lord, the Finance Minister, and Mr Docker, the Postmaster-Q-eneral, left for Melbourne by the overland route this morning (September 4) to attend the conference on the border duties question, and also in reference to the mail service. . Both the New South Wales and Victorian Governments have resolved upon withdrawing from the contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company for the service via Suez. The Wonga Wonga sailed for San Francisco by Fiji on the Ist inst. Mr hoggin, a printer, who for some years carried on business at the Caxton office, Pitt street, went by her as a passenger, and his estate has since then been sequestrated by his creditors. Kelly the murderer of Crawford, who was found dead in Paramatta street, and Lindsay, for aiding and abetting, have been committed for trial. The Government have sold the balance oi their remittable debentures, amounting to £257,500 at par to 4£ per cent. The- daughter of Mr Burrell, an old and respected magistrate, has been drowned by the upsetting of a boat in Sydney harbor. The Zavistowskis sailed for Melbourne on Saturday afier a very successful season. The new Opera Company gave its first performance to a crowded house at the Prince of Wales on Saturday. -
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3305, 18 September 1871, Page 2
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