DEATH OF SIR PETER SCRATCHLEY.
Received December 3, 1 a.m. llelboubitb, This Day. The Federal Enabling Bill was finally . passed by the Legislative Council last night. The Hon. W. Pearson offers a reward of £1000 for the discovery of the persons who tampered with his race-horse, Com-, j motion, which he states was wilfully injured on the 3rd of October hist. Sydney, This Day. ' The debate on the vote of want of confidence, introduced by Sir John Robertson as an amendment On the address in reply, came to a close in the Legislative Assembly hist night, when a division was taken and the amendment rejected by a majority of 2 only, the Government securing 58 votes against 56. There was an unusually large house/ only 2 members being absent. * Bbisbane, This Day. A telegram from Townsville announces the death of Major-General Sir Peter Scratchloy, High Commissioner of New Guinea. General Scratchley, who has been suffering from jungle fever some 10 days, was returning from New Guinea to Australia in the steamer Governor Blackall, and died while the vessel was between Cooktown and Townsville. ' ■
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 75, 3 December 1885, Page 2
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