AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MBLnotntNK. December 15. Tho new P ■ Qc>-aa' Theat'-e, which wi 1 cost over £40,000, will be opened on Saturday, Dacembar 18, with The Mikado " The seats for the dreaa circle were sold iy auc ion on Friday, and fetched «» high hb 225, the average being over 12s Tih ordinary price is 4t Joe Thompson (h* well known bookmaker on that Han'.su had challenged Beach to row on the Nepean river, ot once wired to the champion, g him to accept, and on nc ivmg an sffi"a>ativa reply. ho deposited *'2so with the editor of the Australasian, aud at once c»bled Home accepting the oh.lleoge. Thompson U ptoptied to stake £IOOO to £2OOO. A Select Committee of the As*ornb’y presented a r port on the daby Hansard p oposal Tho recommended iheacc prance of the Age's tender to publish 66,00,) copie* doily for a payment, of £7OOO p>r annum. It is proposed ; o have ten Hansard reporters, tor the payment of whom £SOOO per annum additional will fce requued.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1437, 21 December 1886, Page 2
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170AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1437, 21 December 1886, Page 2
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