INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Mutiny on Board a Barque. Adelaide, Yesterday.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 16 July 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] Mutiny on Board a Barque. Adelaide, Yesterday.

The barque Sarah Bell, bound from Poit Victoria to London, put in here m consequence of a mutiny having broken out; on board. The captain was placed in irons, and the vessel brought into port here. An attempt was made to set fire to the vessel by upsetting paraffin. The accounts of the affair are most conflicting, but there appears to be every reason to believe that the captain was to blame.

The Chairman of the Pukekura Highway District notifies th.it the Board intend at a meeting on August ist to levy a rate of 8d in the £. A public meeting of the settlers of Cambridge West and the district will be held at the School-house to-day, at 7 p.m., to consider the advisableness of forming Cambridge West into a local district. The Kirikiriroa Road Board give notice fliat they intend to take steps to close a road and take land for opening new one. At Mr Price's sale on Wednesday next, Mr K. Hill will dispose of a lot of good substantial furniture. The mare and progeny arc first-class animals, and afford a good opportunity to breeders of getting a class of stock seldom offered for sale in Waikato The new pure cash system now being initiated by G. and C. will certainly prove a benefit to the public. It has been a great success _ in Sydney and Melbourne, and when strjetly carried out the customer who buys at an establishment where the goods are marked low to ensure a rapid sale must be a_ great gainer. G. and C. sell their drapery millinary, and clothing at such prices for cash as gives the buyer the advantages of a shareholder of a co-operative society, without the risk of being called upon tobearaportionofthclossshouidthe year's^ business prove unsatisfactory. Garlick and Cramvell will aim to retain the confidence which the public have hitherto shown them, and are determined to give the pure cash system a fair trial ; whether 'they gain or lose the first year. Country buyers on remitting cash with order will be supplied with goods at co-operative prices ; J'usttbe same as though they made a personal seection. Furnishing 1 goads, such aS carpets, floor cloths, bedsteads, bedding, and "general house furniture, the, largest portion of which is turned out at bur own factory, will be marked at I the lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of 'fiVe jjer cent, will be allowed to thofb Who pay at the time of purchase. G. &C» havjng'realised the entire value of their stock during their late : cash sale, the prescut'stpek Is new A?fp jchbaply bought. A-n inspection iyinvjted.-GAW.iCK and CitANWßti.j City Hall Fu'ruishisiffArcidl Qveeartreet, Auckland