AUSTRALIAN NEWS
[By Telegraph.] [Per Arawata, at the Bluff.] MBLBOU -NE, October 19, Among the new P. and O. Company’s steamers to be despatched for the Australian trade are the Borne and Carthage, recently built. The Precursor, the pioneer of the new French service from Bordeaux, arrived on the 16th. O wing to the large importations of inferior teas, the Government have decided to request the Legislature to pass an Adulteration of Tea Bill es a matter of urgency. The case against Dr. Cecil Jackson, charged with causing the death of Elizabeth Heller, at Maryborough, has been abandoned by the Crown. Judge Higinbotham has decided that the members of the officers band, not entered upon the articles of the ship, are not subject to the Naval Discipline Act, and the two bandsmen of the Bacchante were consequently discharged. The post of Under-Secretary has been conferred on Mr Wilson, who has been acting in Mr Odger’s place for the past few months.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2359, 25 October 1881, Page 3
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