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Southland Times, Issue 676, 29 May 1867, Page 2

Owing to pressure on our space, we are compelled ' to. hold over several important articles, correspondence, &a. f until next issue. . '. : ' , The publication of the Meteorological Returns !for tlie last four months has been unavoidably idelayed. They ."will appear in » few. days;"; : last evening we received information from our jtelegrapMe correspondent, to the effects that a Jrumor had got a float in Wellington, that a well•known firm in Dunedin had failed. The" rumor jhas been emphatically denied in Punedin/^and is [thought to r have originated through th^ reported jfailure of • a firm in-ChristeHurcb. ; - .TJnderpresent [circumstances we deem it advisable: to suppress namesT " " ' ■ -■'/:.'"'"':/. ' ' : The butchers in ijyttei^pn have, reduced the prica of meat to one half its usual' price. The Lyttelfon Times informs its that one reason is that lan enterprising butcher haß for tEe past fortnight bean bringing into port large quantities of mutton, &c, and selling it at half the price charged — namely, from 2d to 4d per lb/; The eupjjly has not been equal to %the demand, for the man lias been rushed, and his cart cleared of its eon tents in a short time. We should lite to see the " enterprising butcher" in InyercargilL