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Local Intelligence.

Out of the mist and sleet on Saturday came the Wonga Wonga steamer, the Heroes of Alma ship, and a host of small fry, all from Wellington. By the steamer we obtain sundry items ol'interesting colonial news from our northern neighbours; of which we print as much as we can elsewhere. From the ship we obtain the long waited for material upon which to print the news we have got. We must try to

atone to our readers henceforward for the twilight, so to speak, that we have kept them in for a month past. Lieutenant Colonel Mould, commanding the Royal Engineers in New Zealand, has paid this province a visit by the Wonga Wonga, for the purpose of determining the necessary reserves for military defence and for other public objects to be made by the General Government. Colonel Mould will doubtless give the province the benefit of his advice on sundry other matteia where his skill and experience may be brought to bear, besides those which lie strictly within his present commission. Whalers recruiting in Pigeon Bay have received from the Sub-collector of Customs in Akaroa, acting under authority from head-quarters, to exchange goods for provisions in barter with the inhabitants of that locality, a sort of trade which will be of great carried on under the eye of an officer of the Customs Department, and may be looked upon as a step towards making Pigeon Bay a port of entry. A piece of news has reached us on good authority, though not through the press; that is, that 300,000 acres of land have been purchased in the neighbourhood of the Bluff, by a wellknown capitalist sheep-farmer of the Australian, commonly called ' Long Clarke.' This will be equivalent to placing £150,000 in the Provincial Treasury at Dunedin. It is said that, by means of an agency in Melbourne, this sale will be followed by others to the estimated extent of one million of acres; We pity the runholders of Murihiku.

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Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 484, 24 June 1857, Page 7

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Local Intelligence. Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 484, 24 June 1857, Page 7

Local Intelligence. Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 484, 24 June 1857, Page 7

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