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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 234, 8 April 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, April 6. A girl named Turner was killed on an excursion steamer at Hawkesbury. Tho unfortunate girl's head was smashed to a pulp through the boat's d^vit breaking and striking her. Tbe interruption on the Overland Telegraph Line to Port Darwin was not, as first supposed, caused by the floods in the Northern Territory, Out wero cnt by a man named FitzGerald, who had on two previous occasions cut the wires in order to bring him succour when almost dying of thirst. The action of the Union Bank in withdrawing from the Associated Banks brings to a conclusion the arrangement which had existed for nearly 24 years. The annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers Association passed a resolution condemning the tax imposed on commercial travellers by New Zealand as unfriendly and impolitic. Sydney, April 6. At the Sydney Agricultural Show, the first prize for heavy draughts and the championship were awarded to St. Lawrence (by Young Clyde), bred m New Zealand. Gladstone, to whom the red ribbon was awarded is also a product of Moarilaud. He is by Lord Salisbury from Banker's Blossom. Arrived — Mount Kemblo, from Lyttelton. Rekfton, April 7. A man named Richard Davis was injured by a fall of earth in his sluicing claim. It is feared his spine is hurt. G. L. Thomson, sbarcbroker, died suddenly last night. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause.