AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
NEW SOUTH WALES; The Minister. of Mines received d reporting that a great rush has taken place at Mount Brotfn, which was expected to,prove a large goldfield* Wonderfully'rich pyrites and stotfd has been struck in a reef‘near LucknoSv; It is estimated to yield 500bzs. pertbn. : Se veral New Caledonian escapees, rested as vagrants and remanded for ok tradition as paupers, were subsequently sentenced to six months’ imprisonment; In the libel case against theßulletm, the plain tifi: proved the absolute false? ness of the insinuation against him! 1 The jury retired, and in half-an-hour returned and awarded £IOOO damages. The Chief Justice summed up strongly against the Bulletin. Dufaure sends to the Herald copies of the telegrams exchanged between Robertson, solicitor, and Skdthorpe’s brother. The latter replies that Skn* thorpe refuses to give any information adding that he doubts bis statement* It is generally considered certain that the whole story is a fiction. SOUTH AUSTRALIA* Government has undertaken to; pay tire whole expense of the Art Exhibition, to be held at the close of the Melbourne Exhibition. QUEENSLAND. One hundred and fifty tons of quarlz from the Crown Claim, Gympie, yielded 21900z5. gold.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1384, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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