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BiUFF, June 28. The b.b. Bangitoto left Hobaon's Bay at 3 p.m. on the 23rd June; cleared the Heads at 5 p.m.; passed Swan Island at 2 p.m. on the followday, and experienced S."W. winds; passed Solander Island during the night of the 27th, and arrived at the Bluff at 12.30 a.m. this day. Melbouene, June 23. Bussiness dull. Flour nominal, unchanged. "Wheat wanted at 4s lid to 5a Id; New Zealand wheat 4s 5d to 4s 6d. Oats wanted, price firm, 3s 3d to 3s 4d. Maize, falling, at 4s Id to 4s 3d. Wool sales have been brisk ; 284 hales were sold yesterday at a slight advance on previous rates. The Anti-State Aid Bill has been read a first time in the Council. A strong opposition is expected. Intercolonial Conference meetings are strictly private. The press is ex eluded, and little is known regarding their deliberations. Believed that Tasmanian delegates stated their views on Intercolonial Customs Union at great length; also, that M'Culloch sub-mitted-resolutions pressing Home Go vernment to undertake the protection of the Fijis. Inspectors Nicholson and Hare re-
■ fuse to accept any pecuniary reward for arresting Power. Sergeant Mountford promoted to Sub-Inspectorship. Thomas Bloomfield Smith, mining agent, was run over and killed by a railway train at Richmond on Sunday. The turning of the first sod on the North Eastern railway took place on the 20th. Sydney, June 22. A man named Spencer, representing himself as a clergyman, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for vagrancy. Wool sales are active. Greasy wool brought advanced rates. Jas. Mein Loder, the well-known squatter, is dead. The floods in the Wagga Wagga are subsiding. The Government have appointed a Law Reform Commission. The Chief Justice has been gazzetted president. Adelaide, June 22. Corn market firm j sales of wheat at 5s sd.
The Maharajah of Caßhmere has sent to Queen Victoria, by Prince Alfred, a shawl on which 300 weavers have been constantly at work for three years. It is the most magnificent shawl ever made.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 683, 12 July 1870, Page 3
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