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Christchtjech, Feb. 21. Grain is not offering freely, as the farmers are holding back for a rise, while buyers are not eager at the price de manded, and refuse to give over 4s ld for wheat. Several sales for immediate delivery are reported at 4s ld to 4s 4d. Barley is quoted at 6s, and wanted. Oats are in slow demand at 2s. The sheep imported from England per Cissy, by tbe Hon. Mr Robinson, were killed and burnt yesterday. The Provincial Government pay him his actual cost out of pocket. Several sheep died of foot-and-mouth disease on the voyage. Aucklahd, Feb. 24. Gold has been found in the Whangamata block, and several claims have been registered. The potato crop has been entirely de stroyed by heavy rains. Geahamstown, Feb. 24. The town was lighted with gas for the first time on Saturday. Wellington, Feb. 24. Arrived. — H.M.S. Eosario, from Sydney CHBIBTCHTJBCH, Feb. 24. The remaining 500 shares in the New Zealand Shipping Company, are about to be offered to the public outside the province. Mr John Hall has declined a farewell banquet owing to bad health necessitating the avoidance of all exciterrent. Dunedin, Feb. 24. Twenty-three Volunteers, being repre seutatives of the Province, sail in the Phcßbe ou Wednesday for Nelson. The following are the names of the additional men : — Muir, Douglas, Treseder, Wilson, Rule, Robinson, Thomson, Richardson, Adam, Nutsford, Taylor, and John Buchanan. The prisoner Cyrus Haley, convicted of attempting to shoot Mr Thomas Russell, of Auckland, assaulted a warder by throwing peoper into his eyes while beating carpets outside the gaol, and made an attempt to escape. At a meeting of the Lawrence Jockey Club, Kay, the jockey who rode Tainbouriiii, has been disqualified from ever riding on tbe course there for jostling Atlas in the Tuapeka Handicap. William Preston, a passenger by the Charlotte Gladstone, died on the Quarantine Island of typhoid fever. Tbe Blind Slab claim at Shotover is giving an average yield of 100 ozs for every small paddock. The weather is so hoLthat thrashing is proceeding simultaneously with reaping.
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Southland Times, Issue 1707, 25 February 1873, Page 2
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