INTERCOLONIAL.
The proprietor of a totalisator and nineteen others were arrested on Friday, January 27, on the Geelong racecourse for using an illegal instrument of gaining. A destructive fire oceured near Sydney, on January 27. at the Junee Hailway •Station on tlie Great Southern line, by which the s ation buildings, offic-s, and refreshment butfet were destroyed. The latterwas insured for £34'io, one forth of which was re-insured in the New Zealand Office. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The third-class passengers by the Garrone have now been released from quarantine.
The Hussion Squadion arrived at Mel bourne on January 29. Patrick Higgins, well known ns the con tractor for the construction of the z\,z ; railway over the H'ue Mountains, is dead,
There is coed reason to believe that thu small-pox epidemic has been stamped out. No case now exis sin the city, and there is only one patient suffering from variola at the sanatorium.
January 30, ws aobserved in Auckland as a close holiday ill celebration ( ,f the forty-Sf-cnd anniversrry of Hii unfurling of the 15 itisll ting in New Zealand hy Governor Hobson. The regatta wis the great attention.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1033, 3 February 1882, Page 3
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192INTERCOLONIAL. Dunstan Times, Issue 1033, 3 February 1882, Page 3
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