AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.~Copy right. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, August 23. Serious grass fires have occurred in the Macquarie Plains district. Over 100,000 acres ot grass have been burned, and a large number of sheep hare been destroyed At a conference of Protectionists to* day it was resolved to make Protection the question at the next election. Sir Henrj Park ex, in addressing a meeting at Singleton, regretted that there appeared to he every chance of a strike among coal miners, and he expressed the opinion that the error lay as much with the masters as the men. Bkisbank, August 23. Edward Maher, a contractor, at Gerald ton, left his home yesterday in company with two blacks. His bodj was dis« covered to day with the head almost hacked off.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 32, 25 August 1888, Page 2
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