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[Pur Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. June 13. The Waste Lands Board have resolved to ask the Government to hand over 183,000 acres near the southern boundary of the Auckland district. A petition from Tauranga settlors, requesting 4,000 acres of land on the deferred payment system, will bo granted when tho land is transferred to the Board. Sixteen similar applications have been received.
A schedule of confiscated lands has been sent to Wellington, and it is expected the lands will shortly be handed over to the Board. A letter from the Under Secretary of Crown Lands approves of the sale, with modifications, of the land to Stewart for special settlement. WELLINGTON. June 15. Mr Thomas reports produce prices. Flour, colonial, £lB to £l9 ; Adelaide, £24 to £25. Oats, 3s fid to 3s 9d. Bran, Is 2d. Wheat, 4s 3d fowls; 7s milling. Hams, lOd to lid ; baconfid to lOd. Potatoes, £3 15s. Cheese, Bd. Maize, 5s fid to 6s. Pollard, Bs. TIMAEU. June 13. At the Supreme Court, Friendlandor was acquitted for rape. Tole, on whom sentence had been deferred, bolted from the gang on the way to the gaol. The warder fired three shots but missed him. Three previous convictions were proved against him, and the Judge sentenced him to ten years. Kedlan and Davis, for highway robbery, got 4 years and 18 months respectively ; Sherrin, for libel, 3 months, having been already 3 months in gaol; Gumming, for libel, was fined £IOO.
Mr Stout lectured last night on the Local Option Bill. Resolutions were passed in favour of the Bill, and a petition was adopted for Mr Stafiord to present to the Assembly. OIiniSTOIIUKCH. June 15. Grain market very active. Owing to scarcity of good milling wheat and oats millers have advanced flour and oatmeal one and two pounds respectively. Best milling’ wheat, Ga Gd to 7s ; flour, £l7 to £18; bran 4s lOd; sharps £5 10s ; oats 3s 3d to 3s Gd ; oatmeal £lB, in 2001b bags; potatoes £3; chosso 7d ; hams and bacon Sd, in cloth ; barley dull.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 228, 16 June 1877, Page 2
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