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INTERCOLONIAL Nsm. FAILURE, OF THE MAKISORaUGHr DIGGINGS. Hob-itika, Friday. The 5..5.. Qtago arrived early to-day from, Melbourne. She left Port Philip Heads,/ at 7 a.m.. on Sunday last v For the. last week? the weather, in Mek bourne has be.ejn excessively hot!. Parliament was to be, opened on the. 13thinst. Theje has beeji a greja.t fire, in CoUingv wood, by*which. seven houses, were de^ *ta*oyed.. The trial of Harry Jon.es axid Earnett. Thompson for the Casin.o robbery hai resulted in their being discharged. The, news, from, Queensland is to the 6th. March. At that date there were thirteen thousand men on the Maryborough, diggings. The rush was greatly overdone* and there ixas shortly expected to be much* ' distress on the field.. The Bmbane Courier of the 2:lst ult; says :— There is nothing at present at the. diggings to justify the rush which is talked of. A good deal of ground has been pnx spected, but nothing further has been dis^. povered. Adelaide markets are firm,. Millers ask L 22 for flour. Melbourne— Flour, Ll9 j oats, 4s 3d ; kerosene, Is 10£ d.
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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 338, 14 March 1868, Page 2
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