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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 234, 3 April 1895, Page 2

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SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE ST. KILDA. OUTBREAK OF SMALL POX. [VKH PRKSS ASSOCIATION.! Melbourne, April 2. The Crown Law Department lias given a fortnights notice to selectors to arrange for payment of arrears, otherwise proceedings will be taken. Adelaide, April 2. The steamer Bhnndara has arrived from Signapore with one case of smallpox on board. Sydney, April 2. A quantity of wreckage belonging to a ship's boat vvus found at Lord Howe blind on Marsh 16th. The name " St. Kilda " is cut on a portion of the wood. The three-ujasted schooner St. Kildi, lefc Newcastle on February 25th for New Zealand, and has not yet been reported. (She arrived sufety in Wellington.) A meeting of local opuonists condemned the action of the Premier in delaying the Local Option Bill till next session as totally unjustifiable, and demanded immediate action. This Day. In tho Legislative Assembly last night the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill passed through committee and was reported without material amendment. Brishank.i April 2, Ministers complain they are unable to come to a decision regarding the cable guarantee, owing to the New South Wales Government failing to give a reply on the Canadian-Pacific question, This Day. The last quarter's revenue showed an increase of .£40,000 as compared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Hobart, This Day. Arriyed — The Gothic, at 7 a. in , from London via the Cape. She sails for Wellington at three o'clock this afternoon.