AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE DISTRESS IN SYDNEY. A RICH FIND. A NUGGET OF GOLD 298 OUNCES. (pee pbess association). Sydney, This Day. Huddart Parker's steamer Tasmania, which is to enter into the New Zealand trade, leaves Sydney for Auckland on the 29tb. The report of the Select Committee of Parliament set up to investigate the seizure of the Sydney owned vessel Costa Eica Packet by the Dutch in Java waters, states that they consider the treatment of Captain Carpenter, who was detained, as degrading and unjustifiable, and that his claims on the Dutch Government, as well as those of the owners and the orew, were moderate and reasonable. The Committee urged that the strongest representation should be made to the Imperial Government on the matter. ' During the discusson on the introduction of the Bank Bill, Mr Reid, leader of the Opposition, strongly favored the establishment of a Royal Bank, also a State paper issue to take the place of the notes now issued by the banks. He supported the present proposal of the Government as a make shift one. The estimate of the homeless persona in the City has reached 3 thousand. Several schemes are afloat for the ameliorating of the prevalent distress. A girl aged 16 has been discovered at West Maitland in an advanced stage of leprosy. Melboubne, This Day. Arriyed — Manapoun, yesterday, from the Bluff. The Premier considers it unnecessary that the delegates to the Canadian contereuce should be members of the Ministry. He states that in the event of the conference taking place m Australia the piobabihty is Victoria will be represented by a leading public man outside of the Government. The Speight-Syme libel action has been resumed, defendants agreeing to supply a copy of the shortland notes for which the plaintiff was unable to continue to pay. Svdner has been declared free of small pox, and clean bills of health are being issued to outgoing vessels. Brisbane, This Day. Two men have arrived at Boeburn with a nugget of gold weighing two hundred and ninety- eight ounces found in an old working on the Pilburra field,
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 118, 16 November 1893, Page 2
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350AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 118, 16 November 1893, Page 2
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