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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1318, 19 October 1872, Page 2

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[new Zealand press association.] DUNEDIN, Oct. 18. Wheat, dull at 5s 3d, market bare; oats, firm at 2a 2d to 28 3d. No barley. Flour, Ll3, and in good demand. The brig Wave reports passing in Foveaux Straits, on the 13th, a vessel about 80ft keel, uncoppered, bottom upwards. Nelson, Oct. 18. The body of the Rev. Mr Gaskin has been found washed up in the Aorere river. Chkisichuboh, Oct. 18. Pownall, of Wellington, exhibited a flax machine before the Committee of the Flax Association, who were favorably impressed, but postpone their opinion till after a week's trial. Flour, Ll2; wheat, 43 9d to 4s lOcl ; barley, 6s 3d to 6s 6d ; oats,*2s 2d to 2s 3d ; butter, 9£d ; cheese, 8d ; grain inactive. | Auckland, Oct. 18. : The Raglan tribes take great interest in the establishment of schools. One chief , offers ten acres for a school site. The natives are forming a company, I with a capital of LIOO, to purchase a schooner for the produce market. Rebel natives own a number of shares. Bluff, Oct. 18. Sailed — Mary Ann, for Lyttelton ; Alhambra, for Dunedin. Wellington, Oct, 18. At the Press Conference thirty papers were represented, and a resolution was passed to appoint a deputation to urge upon the Government for reduction in the price of Press messages to sixpence for twenty-five words; that a fixed allowance be made to papers publishing postal notices, and to call attention to the unsatisfactory result of the insertion of public notices in a Gazette only.