AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(PEB TRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, August 22. Memmott won the billiard championship of Australia. He made a break of 1238, including 300 successive spot strokes, which is the record for Australia. Sydney. August 22. Arrived— Tekapo, from Auckland. Carl Moeller, of Wellington, who is wanted on a charge of alleged forgery, was arrested on the steamer's arrival. This Day. Drastic measures for the supression of larrikinism have been drafted by the Minister of Justice. It is expected there will be an exciting time at Broken Hill on Thursday, when the mines will be re-opened. News from Sanguir Island, the scene of the late terrible eruption, shows the volcano is quieting down. Hundreds of bodies have been found. A portion of the crater broke away and a swift torrent of boiling mud rushed down the mountain side. Enormous volumes of smoke are still pouring from the several craters. The islands are now covered with furious boiling wells and springs of mud.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 28, 23 August 1892, Page 2
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