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[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. FAREWELL ADDRESS TO BISHOP MOORHODSE. MELBOURNE PRODUCE MARKET. THE COBURG MURDER. COMMITTAL OF MOTHER AND THREE DAUGHTERS. QUEENSLAND AND MR. PENDER’S CABLE CONDITIONS. REELECTION OF NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTERS. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. YANKALILLA BANK ROBBERY. (Received March 9, 10.45 p.m.) Melbourne, March 9. Numerous farewell addresses will be presented to Bishop Moorhouse on his departure for England, among them being one which it is proposed will be accompanied by a public gift of £I2OO, •he lists for which are still open. Bishop Moorhouse will sail ou the 18th March. The steamship Te Anan left for the Bluff this afternoon. (Received March 10, 1 a.m.) The Manager of the National Mortgage Agency Company, Limited, reports the local market as follows: Shipping wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel; malting barley is quoted at 9d to 4s Id ; New Zealand feed oats are In fair demand at 2s lOd to 3s; for milling descriptions there is a moderate inquiry at 3s Id to 3s 3d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. (Received March 10, 1 p.m.)
March 10
Mrs Hampton and her three daughters have been committed for trial for the murder of the youngest daughter of the family on the 26th January.
(Received March 10, 1 a.m.) Brisbane, March 9.
The Queensland Government has decided to decline to enter into any agreement for subsidising the Eastern Extension Company’s cable under the conditions proposed by Mr John Pender for further reductions upon the telegraphic tariff.
Sydney, March 9. Mr Suttor, Postmaster-Genera], and Dr. Ren wick, Secretary for Public Works, whose returns were opposed in seeking reelection, headed the poll for theii respective constituencies.
Tlie Government is providing work for the unemployed, (Received March 10,1p.m.)
Adelaide, March 10 No arrests have yet been made in connection with the Yankalilla bank robbery. It is stated that the occuricnce is surrounded by suspicious circumstances.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2921, 10 March 1886, Page 2
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