INTERCOLONIAL [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Melbourne, October 13.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1449, 15 October 1881, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] Melbourne, October 13.

All the small-pox patients in Quarantine are making satisfactory prog/ eBB towards recovery. /

MELBOUENE/ootober 13. Messrs GoldsborougW wool sales opened here yesterday. Tphero was a good attendance of home andf; foreign buyers and there was a good QJompetitfon. Copious rain is no* falling throughout Victoria. / The embezzfemafnt of £8000 by two clerks in the) employ of Messrs Keantimar and Co hi-afe been discovered. The books of the fflrm have been falsified by the defraudi> rS) wh 0 have absconded.

#obt Daswix, October 13. The mails/and passengers of the steamer Brisbane ha& c been landed here, but the vessel is stjlll on the reef. All effoir-fcg to get the steamer Brisbane off so far/have }ieen fruitiess- She is still agrpund \on the reef

. j Sybxev, Friday. It iy now definitely announced that Mr Inneo/ Minister of Justice, will succeed Justice Hargrave as judge of the Supreme Coujft.

iMr A. Ellis, Hamilton, offers a reward ftjlr the recovery of a bay marc. jr. Mr James Harper, Ohaupo, intends fs&%ping ficsh poison for dogs in his paddockb every fortnight . " - The meeting of the ratepayers of the Cambridge highway dUtiict called foi Wednesday, September 19th, is postponed till the 26th inst. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will offer for sale at the Okete 3'ards, Raglan, on Monday, the 31st inst., 200 head mi\ed cattle. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will hold their ne\t cattle ialo at Ngaruawahia, oti Hondav next, the 17th inst., when they will submit to public competition, 40 mixed cattle from Whatawhata, and 100 head store cattle, dairy cows, as well as sheep, horses, etc. The sale commences at noon. Mrs and Miss Hammond announce that they have opened in the millinery business at the police station, Ngaruawahia.

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