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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 134, 8 June 1871, Page 2

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[Per Greville's Company, Renter's Agents.] HoKiTiFi, June 8, 10.20. a.m. The Claud Hamilton, Captain Clarke, left Melbourne on June 1 . Experienced moderate weather throughout the passage, reached tbe roadstead at 4. p.m. yesterday, and was tendered this morning. Melbourne June 1. The A&ftnbly is engaged in discussing the Budget. There have been anti-tariff meetings and deputations. The funeral of Alexander took place on Sunday. Fifteen hundred volunteers, and four military bands were in attendance. There were-^housands of spectators. The s.s. Auckland has been wrecked near Cape Howe. PasseDgers and crew saved. A collision took place in the Yarra between tbe steamer Dandenong and the tug Hercules. The latter sunk. The Hunt Club steeplechase was won by Reindeer. A new paper has been published^ under the title of the Australian Israelite; A young woman named Pausey has been arrested as the reputed mother of a child found drowned. At Geelong there has lately been another horrible case of infanticide. The Rev. — Anner, of Sandhurst, has been committed for trial for a criminal assault on^a child. The Markets. — Breadstuff's slightly easier. Flour, £16 10s. to £17. Adey laide wheat, 6s. lid. New Zealand seed wheat, 6s. 6d. to 63. 9d.; milling, ss. to 6s. 4d. Sugar market easier. Shipping. — Sailed : Bella Mary, Eliza Firth, Auckland and Westport; Arrived : Agnes, Jessie, and Swordfish, from Lyttelton.