AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
A KNOCK AT SWEEP PROMOTERS CHARGES OF CORRUPTION. (Per Press Association.) Melbourne, This Day. The Legislative Assembly passed an amendment to the Post; Ofiace Bill enabling the authorities to stop the delivery of letters addressed to sweep promoters outside the colony. H. Champion w*as committed for trial for criminal libel for statements in a paper known as The Champion, charging Mr O'Halloran, solicitor, with dishonesty as a racing man. The landlady of an hotel in Fitzroy in her evidence before the Lormer Charges Board admitted seeing Rippiport, who promised to do the best for her and get some of his friends to attend the court. See gave bim nothing, but gave Mrs Rippiport two sovereigns. Sydney, February 7. The timber export trade is advancing apace. The .hip Canada haa commenced loading 700,000 ft of local hard woods for London, chiefly wood blocking, but also including a thousand sleepers for a leading English company. This is the third large shipment Scott and Co. have recently sent to Europe.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 185, 8 February 1896, Page 2
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169AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 185, 8 February 1896, Page 2
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