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[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. - IDENTIFICATION OF JBEALE,! THE BANK ROBBER. ] WHARF LABOURERS RESUMING WORK. RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE VICTORIAN MINISTRY. DRY WEATHER AGAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. PROPOSED ANNEXATION op NORFOLK ISLAND TO NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received January 19, 1 a.m. Melbourne, January 18. Mr Hill, manager of the Commercial Bank, CollingwoocJ, and several other persons have identified the prisouer Beale as tho mau who assumed the leadership in the attempted robbery. The wharf laborers went to work this morning, as usual, and loading and unloading vessels has been actively carried on during the day. (Received January 19, 1.45 p.m.) January 19. It is generally understood that after the various preliminary conferences Mr Deakin will agree to join Mr Gillies in reconstructing the Ministry, and it is expected that a majority of the Liberal party will acquiesce in this arrangement.
(Received January 19, 1 a.m.) Sydney, January 18. The temporary water supply constructed by Messrs Hudson Bros, to! supplement the B >tany service, has length been completed. The weather is again dry, and there appears no prospect of rain. Arrived, this morning', the Union steamship Wairarapa and Tekapo, from New Zealand. (Received January 19, 12.15 p.m.) January 19. Government is in receipt of a despatch from Colonel Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, offering Norfolk Island to the colony of New South Wales. A reply has been sent accepting the offer, subject to the approval of the Colonial Parliament.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2878, 19 January 1886, Page 2
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