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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 156, 6 July 1877, Page 5

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I Per Pkrrs Agency.] $ LVnkojn, July 5. Mr Montagu Pyin to-day sold by public auction the .Drill SSlied reserve leases for a rental of £585 per annum, the total amount of ground being less than onesixth of an acre. This is said to be the highest price land ever fetched in the Colony. OaIWARU. Wheat, 7s for best milling ; oats, 3s Gd to 3s 8d ; barley, nothing doing ; hour, LlO to £20 ; bran, L 4 ; potatoes, 45s to 50s. AsHDinttON. At Mabin's opening sale to-day, 1500 bushels oats realised 4s per bushel, net cash, Wellington. Sir Dillon 801 l has been called to a seat in the Legislative Council. Clmrles Grey, confectioner, who once carried on business in different cities of of the Colony, vaa convicted in the Supreme Court of fraudulent -insolvency, in secreting some of the property of his estate from tho trustees. He will be sentenced to-morrow. West-port. A smart shock of an earthquake was felt here yesterday afternoon. It lasted for ten seconds. Auckland. The Rev. Mr Monro was inducted to St. Luke's Presbyterian church. The members of the Presbytery have adopted the petition to the General Assembly embodying the permissive licensing principle. The three men who were charged with rape on an old woman, have been acquitted, the evidence of the prosecutrix being unsupported, and the evidence for the defence showing her to be of intemperate habits, with a bad memory. When discharged, Hugh M'Kenzie, one of the accused, knelt down in the dock and pub- . licly thanked God for his deliverance.