AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(Per Wakatipu, Melbourne, May 8.) Sir William Jervois is , inspecting Sydney fortifications. The nominations for Assembly took place on the sth throughout Victoria. Two hundred candidates were nominated for eighty-four seats. Seventysix old members are seeking re-election.
It is understood that a match between Trickett and Rush has .been arranged for sculling championship of the world. Mr. John O'Shannasy is strongly advocating free trade. Another ease of small-pox has occurred at Adelaide on board British ship Enterprise. Typhus fever is rather prevalent in Melbourne.
The Adelaide Government is calling for volunteers for the defence of the Colony.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 May 1877, Page 3
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99AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 May 1877, Page 3
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