AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[PEB PEEBS AGENCY.] [Via Auckland.] Sydney, March 27. The total cost of the extension of the railway into the City of Sydney is estimated at J 81,373,705, including .£957,705 compensation. Queensland. Sub-Inspectors Gough and Kay are supposed to have perished in the bush from thirst. Mr Griffiths has been chosen leader ox the 5 [Joseph Lapont, charged at Warnamhool with murder, has been remanded. Edwards, the pedestrian, walked liity-one miles in ten miles. Adelaide. Tbe Gaw’or strike is ended, the men accepting tin employers’ terms. Irvine and party, the Queensland explorers, have discovered an easy route for a railway. Melbourne.
A fire at Queenscliffo destroyed a building insured in the South British and New Zealand Companies. Teomnns, the Secretary of the Victorian Reform League. has resigned. Arrived, at Newcastle —The Island City, from Lyttelton. Sailed The Silver Bird. The Napier is at No a castle. The Government steamer Ajax ran into the iron ship Dwarf Bay, cutting a deep rent in the side of the latter below water line. The ship was removed to the flats. The Ajax is uninsured. A Melbourne steamer, the Macedon, collided with the steamer Dawn. The Dawn sank, but is expected to be raised, She is insured for riSI4,OOO.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1596, 1 April 1879, Page 2
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