AUSTRALIAN.
[Per Albion, J Melbourne, October 3. At a preliminary nieetiug for for forming au Indian Famine Itelief Fund, held yesterday, the Governor being prese at, £2800 was j
subscribed, including one item of £2000 donated by Mr W. J. Clarke. Several gentlemen gave £103 each. The movement is being warmly supported. The Tararua left here last Wednesday for the Bluff, but broke down on Thursday near Wilson's Promontory, and wa3 towed back on Saturday morniug by the Claud Hamilton. She had her crank shaft broken. The passengers all follow ■on to-morrow per the Claud Hamilton. An old man seventy-seven years of age, named Arnold, wasj murdered on Saturday evening by a young man named Black, who after brutally kicked the body and cut the head open with a billhook. The murderer is in custody. A considerable quantity of rain has fallen, and the country is looking splendid— business is improving. Charles Pope, the tragedian, visits New Zealand shortly.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 238, 8 October 1877, Page 2
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