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AUCKLAND,
May 25,
Mr Buckland reports : —Horses, heavy draught, £26 to £43 ; medium ditto, £l2 to £lB. Beef, 26s to 30s ; fat wethers, 1 8h to 20s.
Butcher Boy is the favorite for the ■steeplechase. No change has been made in the price of horses. Bookmakers are diary since yesterday’s losses. The Auckland Jockey Club met last night, and disqualified Fishook and Dcrrett, and sustained the decision of the Dunedin Club, regarding Coleman. The St. Legor Stakes—Hippocampus, 1 ; Aerolite, 2.
Flying Stakes —Transit of Venus, 1 ; Longlands, 2 ; Daybreak, 3.
NEW PLYMOUTH
May 25.
Mr W. Courtney, sold yesterday—Yearlings, from £3 to £2 17s ; dairy cows, £lO to £ll ; quiet heifers, at calving, £7 15s to £9 ; pair bullocks, £2115s ; store ewes, 6s 6d ; lambs, 4s ; fat ewes, 10s. The e.s. Taranaki, from the Manakau, passed on, the sea being too rough for communication.
WELLINGTON,
May 23.
An effort is being made to form a company to bo called the Wellington and Mokihinui Coal Mining Company. The nominal capital is set down at £30,000, in 30,000 shares. The promoters have secured a prospectors’ lieense for over 5,000 acres, witii the option of taking up two square miles within six months, on a lease for 21years. The head quarters of the company is to be at Wellington. The object of the company is to work the coal field on the southern side of the Mokihinui river.
May 25.
This morning, Thomas Brown, prisoner on remand for stealing watches from Duncan’s store, hanged himself at gaol. The act was most deliberate. He took the opportunity at breakfast time to remain behind in the cell for a few minutes, when he got a piece of rope used to tie up the bedding, and fixed it over the door ; got on a footstool; took off his boots ; kicked the stool away, and five minutes afterwards the warder missing him, went in search, and found him dead. An inquest will be held to-morrow. TIMARU. May 24. A frightful accident happened at the firing of the Royal Salute to-day. A gunner named Wallis, of the Timaru Artillery, loaded gun, and when order to fire was given, forgot he had loaded, and made as if to load again. Firing gunner did not see him, and pulled lanyard. Gun was fired, and blew Wallis’ arm oft ; severely injuring right side of his head as well. He now lies in the hospital ; little hope of recovery.
May 25.
The artilleryman who was wounded yesterday, at Timaru, died this morning. An inquest will be held.
CHRISTCHURCH
May 25,
The wheat market continues firm ; 10,000 bushels Timaru wheat were purchased at 6s, in store at Timaru, for a local miller here. Oats are firm, and in demand at 2s 9d to 3s, f.0.b.; barley, dull, at 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Flour, £l6 to £l7; bran, 4s lOd ; sharps, 6s lOd. Cheese, 7d. Potatoes, £3. Butter, Is Id.
Exports of breadstuffs to England arc heavy.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 222, 26 May 1877, Page 2
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