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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 98, 27 April 1871, Page 2

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O— - -. . BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. [Per Gkeville's Company, Re.uter's Agents.] Bluff, April 26. The Omeo arrived. this afternoon at 4 o'clock, haying; left Melbourne ..On the 21st at 4 p.m. .She sails for Dunedin to-morrow night. PasseDgers ; For Dunedin,, Mrs. and Miss Kirk, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Stephenson, .Messrs.; M'Neil. arid '^ittkowski ; for Auckland', Mr. F. Stay, aud 19 in the steerage* ' ; '" ' ' -'' ; ' '■••■'•■ ' ■ ' 1 „ 'j';-: ■ ; ;; - /MELBOURNE', April 21; 'j The Tararua arrived. this morning. The Colonial Bank has taken the entire reserve fund and writes off ten shillings per share to meet the half year's losses, and 'pay a dividend' at the rate of 8 per cent. The National' Bank proposes a dividend of .8 per cent.: to carry £4000 to reserve, and £3400 forward. . .v i ;. Jones, of the telegraph department, won the X^lleuge Sculls.- s •; m ;r >y y ,\ '.> Two hundred aud sixty bales of wool have hieeri auctioned at 'full prices. ' ( , i <: The reduction iin sagai'S;asj fully estab] i

lished. Breadstuff* are very dull ; flour, £14 10s. ,to £14 153.; wheat, 6s. Id.; oats dull at 3s. '8d. . t0 33. 9d. , , Sydney. Robertson, teller of the Bank of New South Wales, at Taraworth, lias been committed for trial for embezzlement. Further rioting has taken place in the Newcastle reformatory. The Sydney Fire Confpany has declared a dividend and bonus of 15 per cent. Adelaide wheat is selling at 6s. 3d. The Australasian Company intend altering the steamer City of Adelaide for the Californian line at ouce, Florence has been scratched for the St. Leger and Cup, causing great disappointment to her backers. Lady Clifton is the favorite for tbe St. Leger at 3 to 2. Five to one against Little Dick and Duke. Adelaide. Wheat, ss. to ss. 6d.; flour, £12 10s. nothing doing. Good accounts have been received from the Central telegraph party.