AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[press agency.] Melbourne, September 27. • The steamer Durham arrived from Loudon, 52 days from Gravesend. At the Jackass reef, Bright, 668 ounces of gold were obtained from 41 tons of quartz, Sydney, September 27. The railway to Tamworth will be opened on October 14. A wine shopkeeper named Hunter has been murdered at Tnmberabolgie. It' is proposed' that a combined
Sydney and Victorian team shall meet the Australian cricketers on their return. W. H. Evans law clerk, and Andrew Casey, ompositor, were accidently drOwued. Four prisoners have escaped from the road gang at Maryborough. A reduction in the price of Newcastle coal is expected at the end of the year. October 2. - Ex-priest Ohinquiny, from Canada, lectured at the Protestant Hall, his subject being “ Why I and twenty-five thousand my fellow-countrymen left, the Church of Rome.” The hall was crammed, and the. lecture was enthsiastically. received. Launceston, October 2 A motion tantamount to a want of confidence, that the House disaproves of the Government proposals of taxation has been moved by Mr Reiby.
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Kumara Times, Issue 636, 11 October 1878, Page 2
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