LATE CABLES.
j By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright * L PER UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.! } London, August 16. ' Messrs Thomson and Co., of Clyde f Bank, have obtained contract for building two cruisers for the Australian c Squadron. >* c Melboubne, This Day. ' | The Government has decided to increase | the import duty on oats and barley. L Sydney. This Pay. The Government of New South Wales * is willing to renew the San Francisco ; mail contract for twelve months, 3 Wafieb, Tliis Day. | A hotel at Tahoraite was burned down r this morning. Nothing was saved. Auckland This Day. ' At Shelly Beach, Kaipara Harbor, a man named Harry Pront was found clinging to a capsized boat, . He was 1 brought ashore, but died soon after ; reaching land. It is feared that another I was also drowned, > Three shops were destroyed by fire last " night. Insurances are not yet known. ' A dwelling at Cambridge was burned * down yesterday. 3 A cable has been received from Mel--1 bourne asking for a daily supply of 5000 tons of coal.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 2
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