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The ex-Emperor's wine, comprising 100,000 bottles and 75 butts, was? dis posed of by auction.
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tion exists, it is all on Mr. Reid's part. I am informed there is something like £112 unpaid fees on the books. I should like to know how much there was when Mr. Reid was allowed the fees as salary. — I am, &c,,

Alexandra. Alexandra, January 23rd.
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adapted for. hydraulic, I intißt inform' him that 'l worked with hydraulic pretty hard cement with success in California, ' The cement workings at the Blue Spur, and a few other places that 1 could mention in New Zealand, might 1 probably be exceptions,; but then, as far as the Blue Spur is con cerned, I hold that the hydraulic could be worked there to advantage, as the water could be directed to the dif ferent places as the stuff was broken up, and thus save an amount of extra labour, and a good deal of the surface ground could be washed away with little or no trouble. I may further add that I consider the hydraulic well adapted for our goldfields, both for bringing .down the stuff and washing it away, at one-half the present cost. So far as water races are concerned, I quite agree with " Settler " that it is the only means of developing our auri ferous ground.; but then, let us use the water to the best advantage, and that I maintain to be the use of the hydraulic for ground sluicing. — I am, &c, California^ Miner. Evans Flat, Jan. 28th,

BLUE SPUR SCHOOL MEETING.
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