AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.) Adelaide, January 25. The wheat returns for this season show the yield to be six million eight hundred thousand bushels, being an average of four bushels to the acre, as against ten bushels to the acre last season. It is expected that three millions and ninetyseven thousand bushels will be available for export. The value of this season's yield is estimated at a million and a-half, whiie for the previous season it was just double that amount. The State Bank Commissioners have decided not to visit New Zealand at present. Launceston, January 25. A sad boating accident occurred on the Tamar river yesterday evening. As a party was proceeding up the river the boat capsized, and a young woman named Emma Oakdeu and a mail named Miller were drowned.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2581, 26 January 1889, Page 2
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135AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2581, 26 January 1889, Page 2
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