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NEW SOUTH WALES.

r Gold has been discovered at Mount Darwick, on the Manfred Hun, 40 miles from Ivanhoe. Therejaxe already 4CO men on the field, and a great run is expected. The Rev H. H. Britten of Ryde, who was recently acquitted on a charge of wilfully setting fire to his parsonage, has been assisted with £100 to defray the expenses of the trial, Denlliquiu has been the scene of a distressing tragedy. Two or three months •go a Roman Catholio priest left the town on leave of absence for a year, and wbs presented with a testimonial end a purse of sovereigns. One of the prime movers In the affair was an old resident named £tt*ick Slaman; After the priest's departure filaman received an anonymous letter to the eflect that hla daughter, a girl of 22, who was engaged to a bank clerk, had been seduced by the priest. She subsequently ct ji'eased that the priest bad first dragged and then violated her, and that the offenpe was afterwards repeated. SUman was so overpome by the revelation that ho drank a large quantity of brandy, which, combined with mental excitement, brought on a fit of aangulnscas apoplexy, which proved fatal. The priest, who is believed to bt m Melbourne, is said to have written to the girl offering marriage.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1675, 29 September 1887, Page 3

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NEW SOUTH WALES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1675, 29 September 1887, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1675, 29 September 1887, Page 3

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