AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
. . — -. — 4, ■ ■ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [per united press association.! Sydney, January 17. Serionsfires hare been raging in the country 'districts, causing great damagr t* property, '^he loss in sheep is also very great. It is beUrved that a woman has been burnt to death. The While Rock Silver Mining Company, Fairfield, bus been floated with a capital of £1,000.000. Tlie amount was subscribed twofold. The proprietors get £160,000 in cash nn4 £450.000 in paid up shares. Leases are being taken up m all directions. B&isbakb, January I?. At the City Police Court, Barrett, charged with the murder of Emma Barrett, has been committed for trial. Tho accused admitted that the deceased was his daughter. Sir Henry Holland, replying te the women's petition to Her Majesty the Queen for the' repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act, states that the Imperial Government are taking 'steps to procure the repeal of the act in the colonies^ where the Crown can constitutionally in* terfere.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 91, 19 January 1888, Page 2
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