AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
SCENE IN A PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. <IER PRESS ASSOCIATION, Hob art, Alarc!> 13 The Launceston Town Council has accepted the tender of Messrs Siemins aud Co. for lighting the town by electricity. Perth, This Day The supposed case of small- pox turns out to be a severe case of chicken-pox. Mki.boukne, This - ay. Mr Richardson's flour mills at Nathalie have beeu destroyed by fire. The loss is twelve thousand pounds. Insurance believed to be five thousand. A valuable discovery of quicksilver is reported in the Alexandria district. Sydney, March 13. A scene occurred at to-day's session of the Presbyterian Assembly, and caused great commotion. A long-standing dispute between two rival churches in one of the suburbs came before the Assembly, and a supporter of one section made an insinuation against the minister of the other church. The minister, who considered himself aggrieved, marched up the aisle to the Moderator's chair, ami, crying out, "Jt'.s a lying scandal I* defied the Assembly. KventalJy, however, the trouble was amicably settled, and the matter dropped.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 263, 14 March 1894, Page 2
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173AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 263, 14 March 1894, Page 2
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