THE SUBMARINE CABLE.
INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.
Sydney, August 2. A road party working in Carcoar district has exposed a rich lode of copper, 3ft wide. A repoit from New Zealand that Mr Gilchrist Watt had made a formal offer to change the Pacific route to the Bay ot Clauds instead of Fiji is officially denied. The Government only received the suggestion from agents that the alteration might be acceptable to contractors if they proposed it, which the Government declined to do.
Sailed : Otago, for New Zealand. August 3,
Mr Gilchrist Watt writes to-day stating that on the 29th of May the New Zealand Government wrote to our Postmaster-Gennral applying to have the Pacific Service route changed, but that no answer had yet been received.
A man named Otray yesterday, at Young, shot his housekeeper and then took strychnine. Melbourne, August 2. Mr Service, speaking on the Budget yesterday night, accused the Treasurer of falsifying the accounts, and stated that deficit, instead of being wiped out, still existed in fact.
August 3. M'Meckan, Blackwood have arranged a monthly steam communication between Hobart Town and New Zealand.
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Evening Star, Issue 4192, 3 August 1876, Page 3
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184THE SUBMARINE CABLE. Evening Star, Issue 4192, 3 August 1876, Page 3
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