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Melbourne, January 26. A meeting of the Constitutional Party in Victoria has been called for to-mor-row, to consider the political situation involved in the coming reconstruction of the Ministry. January 27. The steamer Afghan arrived in Hobson's Bay with 178 Chinese. Of this number 64 were detained on board by the Custom authorities for having false naturalisation papers.
A terribly tragedy occurred at Coburg yesterday, when a mother and three of her daughters combined to murder a youger sister, which they did by nearly severing her head from her body. The daughters afterwards attacked each other and all are more or less severely wounded, one being in an extremely critical state. The eause of the crime is believed to have been religious mania, the mother being entirely demented,
Sydney, January 26. The Anniversary Handicap was won to-day by the Hon. James White's Tempe, Minerva being second, Kathleen third. Seventeen horses started. Won by a length. Time, 2min. 25£ sec.
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 258, 30 January 1886, Page 2
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162LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 258, 30 January 1886, Page 2
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