LATEST TELEGRAMS.
[Special to the Mail.]
(Per Press Agency.) ** Dunedin, Sept. 15. The carnival in aid of the Benevolent Institution has realised £1563; but a Bruce auction will be held, and the committee expect to hand over £1700 or £1800 to the institution. Invercargill, Sept. 16. A land furore is raging here. Speculators from Dunedin and Christchurch __are buying up at fancy prices. A great deal of land, both Crown and private, has changed hands during this week, and it is said that the Waste Lands -Board will he deluged with applications this week. As a rule, buyers are agreeably surprised with the quality of the land. The steamer Oreti grounded whilst entering the New River yesterday afternoon, and remained hard and fast all night on a mud bank. She did not get off this morning, and it is reported she _is seriously injured. A report came to the police this nsorning of a herrid murder at Waikawa. A man named Walsh is said to Jiave killed his wife. Particulars not to hand.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 226, 17 September 1878, Page 3
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173LATEST TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 226, 17 September 1878, Page 3
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