AUSTRALIAN GABLES.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, Angnst 7. In tbe Legislative Assembly, when the Commonwealth Bill was called on, a scene occurred owing to Mr Prendergast remarking in response to a reference to the 1890 strike, that members on the opposite side had been mixed up in dishonourable proceedings in that year. Efforts were made to obtain a withdrawal of tbs words, but Prendergaat persisted, and ultimately the recalcitrant member was suspended for the sitting. At a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works the estiruntes for 1897 98 ebowed a df fieit of L 228.000. The an. nouncement resulted in a noiay demonstration. One member said he thought the time had arrived when a Select Committee thould be appointed to enquire into tbe Board's financial pcmtion. Brisbane, This Day. A man, supposed to be May. the German abeconder, has arrived at Maryborough. Sydney, This Day. Catherine Smith was found dead out- 1 side a tent at Manly, whore she resided with a man named Lswi?. The latter states they had been drinking together on Saturday night and quarrelled. He struck Smith on the face and left her in tbe road. He afterwards found her dead outside the tent. A post mortem examination showed that death was due to violence. Lewis has been arrested.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 34, 9 August 1897, Page 2
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