AUSTRALIAN NEWS
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[Per City of New York at Auckland.]
MELBOURNE, September 6.
At a meeting of olergy aud others, to consider the social evil question, a Sooial Purity Association was formed. The rooaipts of the Melbourne Orioket Club last year were £2BC9 The Polios Commission to-day recommended that Superintendent Winch and Sub Inspector Larner, who it was alleged hal had improper monetary dealings with publioans, should be suspended, pending an investigation of tho charges. The recomvaendsrion has been given effect to. An indignation meeting of police was held subsequently, Bixty bi'iog present, and it was decided to take steps to repudiate the aspersions cast on the police of blank mailing publicans. BRISBANE, September 6. The No. 1 North Phosnix, at Gympie, crushed 417 tons for 1015 oz. of gold. PERTH, September 6. The settlers of Gascoigne have had a skirmish with the natives recently. A railway on the land grant system through the Kimberley district is proposed. SYDNEY, September 6. Three Frenchmen and one Kanaka have been murdered by the natives at Fort Resolution, The captain of the schooner Portville and two others narrowly esoaped being tomahawked, and in making their escape were compelled to swim to tho schooner. The F.enoh war steamer Distress is ordered to the scene of the outrags, with instructions to administer severe puuishment on the offenders.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2631, 12 September 1882, Page 3
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