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♦ {Per Preti Agency.') LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Melbourne, May 29. Sailed—The Ringarooma, with the Suez mail. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, May 29. A telegram has been received that the umpires have both declared that Auckland is the winner of the Chess Match. Five chairmen of suburban Highway Boards have convened a public meeting to protest against the Government delay re the laipara Railway. Wellington, May 30. The district officers of the Oddfellows', Foresters, and Reckabite societies, met last night to consider the new Friendly Societies Act prepared by the Government, to submit to the House in the coming session, and a deputation representing all three societies will wait upon the Minister to-day with respect to some of the provisions of the Bill. It is understood Mr Fitzgerald has been engaged drafting the new Local Government Bill. It is stated that the new Municipal Bill being prepared will contain provisions by which the accounts of all bodies administering local government will be subject to an official audit similar to that existing for provincial accounts. The B.S. Taranaki arrived from Lyttelton and Otago at noon. A saloon passenger named Bass is supposed to have jumped overboard during the night; he was not missed for some time, and no trace of him could be discovered. Hokitika, May 30. Mr Kortegast's brewery at Boss was burned to the ground at two o'clock this morning. No other property was destroyed. The hydraulic apparatus worked admirably. The brewery was insured in the Imperial Insurance Company for £9OO. Dunedin, May 30. A deputation from the Licensed Victualler's Society intend to wait on the members for the city to discuss the proposed amendments in the present Act, and to request their support in passing an amended Act during the coming session. FIJI NEWS. The Llewellyn, from Levuka, reports that the disturbance has ceased.A severe earthquake has occurred at Savu. Two hundred acres of sugar cane at Nadi are likely to rot through want of machinery. The natives at Natewa Bay have renounced Christianity, A priest induced one hundred to go into a hut, while they set fire to it, and guaranteed that their power would prevent them being burnt. Many were severely burnt, and two or three fatally.
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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 607, 30 May 1876, Page 2
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