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[per press agency.] V*WELLINGTON. June 29. Mr George Thomas reports : —Flour (colonial), £l9 to £2O ; Adelaide, £24 for guaranteed parcels. Large quantity of inferior in market. Oats, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; bran, Is to Is 2d ; wheat (fowls), 4s 6d ; hams, 9-j-d to 104 d ; bacon, 9d to 9Jd ; cheese, 7£d to 8.1 ; pollard, £8 ; potatoes, £3 10s to £4 10s ; maize, 4s 9d to ss. The Post states that a European resident at the Lower liutt, actually sold his own daughter, a little girl, live years of age, to a Maori, for two pounds. The number of nominations received at the Immigration Office this month, was 9vS. The establishment of a Temperance Working Men’s Club, is contemplated. OAMARU. June 29. Inquiry into (he circumstances attending the death of Mrs Quarric, resulted in the jury, after considering the matter olmod three hours, returning a verdict of “manslaughter” against Mrs Quarrie’s oldest son Daniel. The coroner then committed Daniel Quarric to take his trial at the next sittings, of the Supreme Court at Dunedin GREYMOL'TII. June 28. On Monday evening, Michael Rinse!!, a minor, accompanied by Mrs Margaret Mdncrncy, of Nelson Crook, and her two children, and a young woman named Bridget Fitzsimmons, who was engagodto Kinsell, loft the foot of Nelson Creek in a canoe, to cross (he river to Blackball Creek. Nut having reached their destination, a search party was formed, who yesterday found the canoe bottom up, with a woman’s skirt on it, supposed to be that of the girl Fitzsimmons, who could swim, and, it is supposed, had clung to the canoe, and afterwards attempted to reach the bank, but failed. The body ol: Mrs Mclnerney was found this morning. The other bodies arc being searched for It is certain that the who.’o party arc drowned. AUCKLAND. Jim-- 28. Sir George Grey has completely recovered bis health. The Insurance Companies are considering the new tariff, in view of new watersupplies. The City Council have decided to fix levels for all streets not yet surveyed. DUNEDIN. June 29. Produce wholesale prices arc quoted as follows Wheat, ,5s (id 1o 7s, one. transaction reported at 8s ; oats, 3s Gd to 3s 9d; barley, 3s 6d to 4s Gd ; bran, £4 15s; flour,' £l9 to £l9 10s oatmeal, £2O ; potitoes, £3 10s. Mr Bradshaw reports :—Bank New Zealand shaves, £22 7s Gd ; National Ban 1 .:, £3 11s ; Colonial, £2 Gs ; National Insurance, £1 15s; South British, £5 ; Standard, 17s ; Mosgiel Woollen Factory, £3 10s. In the police court, to-day, Bridget Ryan, a domestic servant, was with having abandoned her infant chief hi the Catholic Church on Sunday night last. The case was remanded.
Opera for Teetotallers—The “ Watercarrier.” What is worse than raining cats ana t—Hailing omnibuses. Always in debt when there is no nccesfor it—The letter b. Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Draoery and Clothing Establishment in the ‘ district. R. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial bouses ; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterlingquality at prices that cannot be improved on by any other house in New .Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of. any kind. Note the address—ll A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.—advt. Holloway's Pills. —This medicine has triumphed over every obstacle with which time, prejudice, and vested interests have opposed it, and it at length-stands forth victorious as the most reliable remedy for those derangements of the system always common at the change of seasons. _ When the air grows cooler, and the functions of the skin are retarded, an occasional dose of Holloway’s Pills will urge the liver and kidneys to greater activity, and compensate the system for diminished cutaneous action. As alteratives, aperients, and tonics these Pills have no equal. To every aged and delicate person, whose appetite is defective, digestion infirm, and tone of health low, this medicine will be a precious boon, conferring both case and strength.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 232, 30 June 1877, Page 2
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