INTERCOLONIAL.
On the 20th Instant, at Melbourne, 1500 bags of New Zealand oats were sold at 3s 4d.
Victorian statistics prepared from the census returns show that the area of land devoted t« wheat crop has increased 220, 000 acres since last census. The decrease, however, in the yie'd has been 265,000 The detached squadron off Cape Otway on the 20th instant.
The oldest printer in Australasia is dead. Mr T. Wilkinson, who recently died at Brunswick (Victoria), apod eighty-two, arrived in Tasmania in 1833, and went over to Melbourne seven years later He started the “ Portland Gazette ” in 1842
The detached squadron, including H. M. ships Inc nstaut, Carysfoot, and Tnurma line, arrived in Port Philip on the 21st instant.
The Orient steamer Potosi, after leaving Svdney for Kngland on the 21st instant, grounded at Clark Island, but was got off, and afterwards proceeded on her voyage.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 997, 27 May 1881, Page 3
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148INTERCOLONIAL. Dunstan Times, Issue 997, 27 May 1881, Page 3
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