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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 183, 6 February 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) Hob art, Feb. 5. The girl Brown Las withdrawn the charge against Davidson, whom she accused of an intention to drug her in the railway carriage. Perth, This Day. Iso less than 820 persons arrived at Freetuantle yesterday. Owing to the scarcity of lodgings many hundreds were camped in the parks. Considerable apprehension is felt on account of the congested state ot the railway and telegraph services. One suggestion to overcome the latter difficulty quickly is to lay a cable between Albany and Adelaide. Sydney, February 4. The enquiry in connection with the tires on the ship Thistlebank threw no light on the outbreak. Three men have been arrested at Murwilluwhah with a large quantity of spurious silver coin and 10 counterfeit sovereigns in their possession. Reports from western New Guinea reveal the prevalence of terrible drought. There is a scarcity of food, and the native teachers belonging to the missions are in dire need. Brisbane, Feb. 5. During a dispute in a hotel at Mt Morgan, the landlord, Butler, fired two shots at a party of men drinking in the house. He wounded two and a third was seriously injured by a blow from a tomahawk. Butler has been arrested. The rivers in the vicinity of Rockhampton has risen to within a few feet of tne great flood in 1890.