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Dunedin, Friday Market Keport. —Prime bef, 26s 6d to 25a per 100 lbs; mutton, 2|d per lb ; good sample milling wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 7d per bushel; fowls wheat, 2s 6d to 8s per bushel; feed oats, Is 5d to Is 6d; milling, Is 7d to Is 8d; malt barlev, 2s 9d to 3s 3d per bushel; feed, Is 9d to 2s 6d per bu?hel; potatoes, £4 5s ; grass hay, £2 10s per ; wheat 3s 9d to 4s ; new oaten hav, £3 per ton; chaff, £2lsspf*rton ; straw, £2 per ton ; bran, £3los ner ton ; pollard,£4los per ton ; flour, £lO 10s to £ll per ton; oatmeal, £9 10? per ton ; pearl barley, £lß;onions,7s 6sto Bsner cwt.; cheese, 5d per lb.; bacon (rolled) 9d per lb; hams, 9£d per lb.; sides bacon, B£d per lb (grain fed). "Wellington, Sept. 3. New forms under Property Assessment Act have been adopted, and will b 3 issued next week. Probably the time for sending in returns will be extended to middle of next month. The Post to-night says it is understood that a preliminary sale of land on Waimate Plains will be commenced on 25th of next month. The block which is to be placed in the market contains 7000acresof the finest land in the colony. The price is said to be £4 for or £5 for deferred payments extending over ten years. Chrtstcuukch, Sept. 3. A boy named Wallace, sixteen years of age, was admitted into the hospital in a comatose condition from drinking the greater portion of a bottle of brandy. He died this morning. The police made enquiries into the circumstances uuder which he obtained the brandy, and the inquest on the body was concluded this evening. The decision will be given to-morrow. Dpnedin. Sept. 3. A passenger by the barque Anne Melhuish, which arivedfrom Newcastle to-dav, jumped overboard during the passage and was drowned.
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Western Star, Issue 377, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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