LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
NEW SOUTH WALES,
Sydney, 3rd August. It is probable that the Government will bring in a Bill to repeal the one passed a couple of years ago, imposing a postage duty upon newspapers here.
The Journal of Commerce to-day says, that there has been a better feeling among, business circles this week, but that transactions are still limited. In wool there was a further fall in the prices realised. There was a considerable quantity sold'. Full woolled skins brought from 6|d to 7£d per ife.
The City Council intends to spend 3,000 on the reception of Prince Alfred. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, 3rd August. Owing to the stoppage of the Burra and suspension of operations at several other mines, there is considerable distress . on * the Peninsula, on account of the number of miners out of employment.
There is 1 nothing doing in the, corn market,, and quotations are merely nominal. Wheat, ( 4s 6d; best wheaten hay, £3 per ton. Sheep are quoted at from 13s, to 14s each, and lambs at from 8s to 9s, each..' ‘"L'”"’'/' '■ '- ’• .
jEVefy-effort has. beenmade.to give a j ;io the ; Prince. Thirty: 'to be; kept fpf ,his. use, and a splendidco-lonial-made carriage' is being hriilt, .
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 35, 26 August 1867, Page 209
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202LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 35, 26 August 1867, Page 209
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