AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
HEAVY GALES. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melboubne, December 28. The jury ie the libel action, Speight y. Age, have retired to consider their ver» diet. The Cabinet has decided to fill the Agent-Generalsbip, and it is expected that Mr Duncan Gillies will be chosen for the position. ' A voilent storm is raging along the Victorian coast. This Day. The jury in the Speight- Age libel case, desiring further information on certain points, adjourned consideration of their verdict until to-day. Brisbane, This Day. At a Wesleyan picnic at Croydon a large number of children were poisoned from some unknown cause, and twentythree required medical treatment, but all are now out of danger. Perth, December 28 Splendid rains hare fallen on the Coolgardie Roldfields. Owing to the expansion of the mining industry in the colonj, the Government has decided to establish a separate department for mines.. Sydney, This Day. The Premier replied to the Premier of Victoria that as the other colonies had agreed to invite the Duke of York to visifc the colonies, New South Wales would not stand out.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 202, 29 December 1893, Page 2
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