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[PER GREYJME'S TEL. CO , BETTER'S AGENTS.]
Auckland, Saturday. Ohinemuri correspondents state positively that Tq Hira has not only consented to the construction of the telegraph from Tauranga to Grahamstown, but that a large section of the natives have expressed a determination to open up the Upper Thames to diggers at once.
The body of John Ferguson, fireman of the Wellington, was found floating in the Manukau. The deceased fell over Onehunga Wharf at night, when proceeding on board his vessel.
Despatches from Opotiki report another engagement at Rotoruu between Te Kooti, Mair, and Preece. None killed on either side. Major Porter, with eighty men, was to leave Opotiki on the 11th, to join Mair.
The Auckland farmers have altered their market day from Saturday to Friday.
The Caledonian pumps have again broken down, and the shares are falling. Mr J. M. Lennox reports Caledonians, £117 ; Thames, £23 ; Nonpareils, firm £5 7s Od; Otago, £2 17s 6d; Shotover, Jls.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3321, 17 October 1871, Page 2
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