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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 694, 30 June 1870, Page 4

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ARRIVAL O^ i THiJp8 i s, RANGITOTO AT THE BLUfIf; [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] [The following was issued from this office as an Extra on .Tuesd.ay ; afternoon :-?] ? . ; Bluff, June 28. The s.s. RarigitoHJo- left IHobsoriJs Bay' at 2 p.m.* on the 23rd June, cleared the Heads at 6 p.ml, passed! Swan Island at 2 p.m. the following day, and experienced S.WI" winds ; iJalssed the Solander durifagy the night of the 27th, and arrived at the Bluffll.3o a.mCisame^day.; - ; ;' W Passenger List. — Dunedin : Messrs Roal,i Neill, Munrb, Lampton. ' I'For Lyttelton : Mrs Wigley ; ten in the steerage. Cargo List. — For Dunedin, 84 tons ; Lyfctelton, 44 ; Wellington, 26 h i-Wekon, Melbourne, June 23. ...j ID (Business is dull. ; Fipu?,. non>inal ; and unchanged. Wheat wanted at is lid to 5s Id. New .Zealand wheat, 4s 5d to j4s 6d ; oats wanted, price firm at 33' 3d !to 3s 4^d ; rcaize falling, 4s 2d to. 4s 3d. 1 Wool sales brisk. Two hundred and , oighty-four bales ™ soldyesterdfty,(a| a^ |li|^ftd^n3s|^LPJi viou^ tes> Jtt I ?'

Arrived — Union, from Lyttelton, on. the 22nd ; Sarah and Mary, from the Buller. T;he State- Aid Bill has been read a first i time in the Council. A strong opposition is expected. . The Intercolonial Conference meetings are strictly private. The Press is excluded, and little is known regarding their deliberations. It is believed that the Tasmanian delegates stated their views on the Inter-colonial Customs Union at great length; also, that Mr M'Culloch submitted pressing the Home Government to undertake the protection of the Fijis. ..Arrived — Tararua, on.the 2lst. '> Sirt^ani:e|#i;lnie.r is! stjll indisposed. ' f hspectSrsNicolsdn and Hare refuse to accept any pecuniary reward for arresting Power. Sergeant Montfort has been promoted to a Sub-Inspectorship. Thomas Bloo'mfield Smith, mining agent, was run over and killed by a railway train at Richmond on Sunday. The ceremony of turning the first f sod of the North-eastern Railway, toot place of the 20th. Sydney, June 22. Sailed from Newcastle on the 22nd, Deva for Auckland, Reta fcr Lyttelton.: Alexander Fyffe, a squatter, formerly of Geelorig, has been chosen member for Rockhampton. r . A man named Spencer, representing himself to be a clergyman, arid collecting subscriptions, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for vagrancy. Wool sales active. Greasy wool brought advanced rates. ' • Mr James Mein Loder, a well-known squatter, is dead. The floods at Wagga Wagga are subsiding. ■ Government has appointed a Law Reform Commission. The Chief Justice has been gazetted president.