MELBOURNE.
November 23. During the past week the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have catalogued 2230 bales at their wool sales, of which 1900 were sold at prices which are considered satisfactory. There was a good attendance of buyers. and brisk competition was experienced, Good qualities are about the same as at last sales, and coarse and inferior crossbreds, in sympathy with the London market, are a shade weaker. November 24. A trial of the electric light at the Spencer-street railway station took place last night. Sixteen arc and forty incandescent lamps were in position, and the trial was completely successful. Subsequently Sir Julius Vogel entertained a large number of guests at supper, and the room was brilliantly lighted with incandescent lamps.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3550, 24 November 1882, Page 3
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124MELBOURNE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3550, 24 November 1882, Page 3
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