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[ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Melbourne, Dec. 30. /' The past week has been devoted to holiday making, aud the city has been crowded with visitors, all places of .public amusement being crowded. :. .The Governor proceeds qn Saturday to^ Tasmania, on a visit to Governor Dv Cane. " l ' / Parliament is further prorogued to 31st January. ■ ( . . . A shocking boat accident occurred at' Geelong'on Boxing Day. A boat containing. 20 persons, .principally women and children, capsized during a squall, and ten were drowned^ The boat was; overorowded and unseaworthy. Alexander Todd, teller of the Union Bank, absconded with;Ll2o6, but was arrested at the Heads,_ahoard . of ' the Claud Hamilton, with! 1 a young woman named, Armstrong, who. had : in her poseesgion LSOO, and a draft for LSOO on Auckland. '■■■-■■ ■■■ ,;
' Jlk further tender ha 3 been accepted for .jnneteen miles of railway. .extension, Clunes to Maryborough. \' ' Page's coach, between Hobart :T/)wn and Launceston, was upset. Two persons were killed, and others injured.--^>~-^:-_"^? Nobusinesß-dping. • . > Major Pitt has been appointed clerk of the Executive Council during the absence" of Captain Kay; .[ ; • f Until the new Government House is' completed, the Governor wilt reside at Bishopscpurt. r ... r , )7 f , ( .. ,", " { Archbishop Vaughan, in Sydney, inveighed strongly against; the, Education; Law. ■ ( -•; "Newcastle— Sailed : « T>hc, Bassett, for Wellington .;:'Dep.j 29,s^Garribo, for Dunedin. L-i .
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1692, 6 January 1874, Page 2
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