AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 Melbourne, April 28 By the fire at the Munerkah Hotel and store several persons had a narrow escape of being burnt to death. The damage is estimated at £14,000, which is only o >vared by insurance to the amount of £6000. TyphoicHever is increasing. A thousand cases were reported during the last three weeks, of which 120 proved fatal. Adklaxde, April 29. Way Lee, Chinese merchant, has forwarded prot« t« to the Government of I Victoria and New South "Wales against the treatment of the Chinese. He requests thit measures should be adopted to adopted to permit Chinamen crossing from one Colony to another without payment of poll tax.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 126, 30 April 1889, Page 2
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