AUSTRALIAN.
[by electric telegraph —COPYßlGHT.' [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Melbourne, Jan. 23. A case of suspected robbery and murder is reported to have occurred near Geelong. Francis Beech, a farmer living at Petfavel, was found to have been murdered in his house, and his wife was in a dying state. The house had been ransacked throughout. No arrests have yet been made. The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (limited) reports of the local grain market as follows :—Wheat is in moderate demand at 4s. to 4s. Id. ; malting barley, 4s. to 4s. 6d.—quotations nominal; New Zealand oats—feeding sorts in favor of buyers at 2s. lid. to 3s. Id., milling sorts in request at reduced prices, 3s. id. to 3s. 2d.; New Zealand oats under bond 2s. sd. to 2s. Bd.; the prices of barley maintained. Sydney, Jan. 23. The New South Wales estimates of expenditure were tabled in Parliament last evening. They show a total estimated expenditure of £7,710,000, against £6,810,000 last year, an increase of £899,000.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 January 1884, Page 2
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172AUSTRALIAN. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 January 1884, Page 2
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