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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 181, 4 February 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) Sydney, February 3. The Marine Board suspended the certificate of Captain Bogles, of the Aklinra, for three months. They also found that the loss of the Woollumbin was caused by the mate's default.. The walling-off of the burning portion of the Seaham colliery will reduce the : working area by twenty acres. The German warship Talks, from New Guinea, reports that Herr Otto Ehler*, the well-known German explorer, traversed the island from north to south, and when within a few miles of Port Moresby . was drowned in crosssing a river. A telegram from Noumea records the ■ murder of M. Aubertin, a well known : French resident by some unknown : assassin. There were tea stabs in the body. ■ This Day. On Saturday last the ship Knight of i St. Michael, coal laden, left Newcastle \ but put into Sydney last night with her s cargo dangerously heated. Melbourne, This Day. i Arrived — Wakatipu, from the Bluff. The Government propose to spend £400,000 in improving Flinch street i railway station to meet the requirements • of the suburban traffic. They also inI tend to carry out renovating work at the , suburban and country stations in order i to give work to the unemployed during the winter. Brisbane, Feb. 3. Obituary— Drury, C.M.G., manager of the National Bank. Adelaide, This Day. The will of the late Lady Jervois was mentioned in the Courts this week. Her property in this colony, valued at ;£45,---000, is left to her husband and children. Hobart, This Day. The weather is very cold. Mount Wellington is covered with snow.