AUSTRALIA.
[bkutee's telegrams.] MELBOURNE, March 17. New Zealand a SanatoriumMajor W. O. Smith, the Victorian Minister of Education, will shortly proceed to New Zealand on a trip for his health. Victorian Bobbies. A Board appointed to inquire into the management of the police force, particularly with reference to the Kelly outbreak, has commenced its sittings. SYDNEY, March 17. Political. In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Public Works, introduced his Public Works Statement, in the course of which he announced that it was proposed to undertake the construction of several additional lines of railway in the colony, involving an expenditure of £8,750,000. The debate on the proposal was opened, but was adjourned till Tuesday next. Aquatic A sculling match for £IOO a-side took place to-day on the Clarence river, near Grafton, between Rush and Pearce, two well-known oarsmen,, and reeultod iu a victory for the former. Diggings. The news from Mount Brown diggings gives a very unsatisfactory account of tho state of the field. ShippingSailed—Te Anau, for Auckland.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2203, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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