THE SUBMARINE CABLE.
INTERCOLONIAL NEWS
Sydney, June 24,
New Zealand, South Australia, and Queensland have consented to share in the expense of a steamer to rjun from Java to Port Darwin. Victoria has not replied definitely. Brandy is unaltered. Kerosene, Is 5d and Is 6d; New Zealand oats, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; wheat, 4s lOd to 4s lid; Adelaide, 5s 3d to. 5s 4d; flour LI 1 158 to LI2 ss; candles, ?fd to lOd. Melbourne, June 24. In Stevenson'h' case the verdict is for the defendant!.
A Queensland telegram states that the three escapees recently from Noumea found the beaoh near Noosa. They had killed a bullock, cutting the flesh into junks, and using the hide stretched on poleß as a tent. Thejg had only 301bs. of flour when leaving the penal settlement, andr had scarcely anything to eat for eleven days, when a vessel bound for Sydney came alongside. She refused them a passage, fearing the French Consul would arrest them at Melbourne.
James Darrell, teller at the Bank of New South "Wales, absconded last week to Adelaide with L 6,000.
New Zealand oats sold at 3s 2d to 3s 3d.
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Evening Star, Issue 4159, 26 June 1876, Page 3
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194THE SUBMARINE CABLE. Evening Star, Issue 4159, 26 June 1876, Page 3
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