CABLE NEWS
RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. ( Render's Day/utche* to the Midi.) COSTLY SITE. Melbourne, 3rd. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have purchased a site in Collins-stroot West for extensive warehouses, at a cost of £27,OUU. CASUALTIES, BATTLE OF SPITSICOP. Capetown, Ist. An official report of the battle of Spitskop gives the following figures of casualties on the side of the British ; Officers killed, 3: wounded, 9 ; taken prisoner, 7 ; rank-and-file killed, 82 ; wounded, 120 ; and 250 taken prisoner.
HOME MARKETS. London, Ist. Market for Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuffs is without quotable change, prices remaining at 49s 6d for Adelaide wheat ex warehouse, 45s for New Zealand wheat ex ship, and 34s for Adelaide wheat cx warehouse. Australian tallow ; Best beef, 34s ; best mutton, 375. COERCION BILL PASSED. London, March 2. In the House of Lords to-day, the Irish Coercion Bill was read a third time and passed.
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Patea Mail, 5 March 1881, Page 3
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150CABLE NEWS Patea Mail, 5 March 1881, Page 3
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