MELBOURNE.
March 14. A further extension <5f thirteeniniles on the Victorian railways, w«i,s opened yesterdary. • . .Hastings was executed this morning. He~ ■stilly maintained his : innocence of murdering his wife or violating his daughter. March 15. The English cricketers will probably play m Sydney at the end of the month, conclude with a match m Adelaide* and depart by the April mail. Over £3500 was paid m stakes at the late race meeting. It was not a financial success. m '""■■■ \ Floods at. Ballarat have been very disastrous to proprerty. The waters rushed down with great force, and carried away three houses. ■ The Victorian Minister for Railways says that, individually he is m f aybur of running Sunday trains, but that the" majority 6f the representatives of the people m Parlianient are against it. ; Seven hundred and sixty Chinese were landed m Cooktown on the. 14th from Hong Kong. Five hundred more were to leave on the Ist instant, and eight hundred shortly after, all for Cooktown. - > Further Very extensive Chinese immigration to Queensland is expected.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 45, 24 March 1877, Page 2
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