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Southland Times, Issue 1782, 19 August 1873, Page 2

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London, August 7. Stocks are firmer. New Zealand fives, £1031. Tallow is improved. The Caldwell Quartz Company, with a capital of £ LOO ,OOO is announced. Wool has slightly declined, foreign orders being slack. The Antwerp sales opened on the sth, and showed one penny advance. Messrs Balme and Co. report combing sorts as twopence to threepence above the price paid at the close of the last series ; clothing wool one penny to three half-pence better; lambs' wool a shade dearer ; and cross-bred unchanged. Fifty thousand bales remain unsold. The sales close on the 16th.

Auckland, August 18. The Custom House has been entered by burglars, who, finding nomoney, stole a quantity of boots from the store. New Plymouth, August 18. The first sod of the "Waitara and Wanganui railway, the first length of which, from Waitara to New Plymouth, a distance of 11 miles 13 chains, has been let to Messrs Brogden and Sons, will be turned on Thursday. Napieb, August 18. Bishop Moran has been presented with an address. "Wellington, August 18. The steamer Lady Bird has been taken on the patent slip. The Customs revenue collected here during the last month was £1625. Eeturns laid before Parliament show that the expenditure on the civil list for 1872-3, amounted to about £24,975. The Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Fund state in their report that they had not received the Canterbury sinking funds from the trustees in England, the only remaining trustee of the funds being advised that the release of the Commissioners will not relieve him from responsibility, he declines handing; the money over except under an order of the Court of Chancery. The Commissioners consent to this course. Sailed. — Wanganui for Napier, and Phoabe for the South. Arrived. — Alarm, from Newcastle, with a cargo of coals, after a passage of forty days. Nelson, August 18. Mary Ann "Wentham, who was convicted at the last session of the Supreme Court for manslaughter, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Chbistchuech, August 18. Over 24,000 applications have been received for 15,000 shares in the New Zealand Shipping Company. Beefton, August 18. There have been heavy floods here, and communication has been stopped, but no serious damage has been done. Dunedin, August 18. A fire has occurred in Messrs Marshall and Copeland's brewery, causing damage to the amouut of £1000. There is an insurance of £500. Fox challenges Harris to run for £100 a side, either at Dunedin or Christcburch, for 120, 440, or 880 yards, over hurdles. At the nomination of candidates for the representation of the Lakes district • in the General Assembly, on Saturday ?

the show of "hands was in favor of Mr Manders. Mr Fiab. was not nominated. Specimens of iron sand, received from Stewart's Island, and tested by Dr Black, have yielded three per cent, more pure metal than the Taranaki iron sind. Port Chalmers, August 18. Arrived — The St. Kilda, from Liverpool, after a passage of 97 days. Two mates of the lighter Clutba, named King and Moore, quarrelled while coming from Dunedin, and fell overboard. Moore was drowned.

Arrived — Dallam Tower, from London.