INTERCOLONIAL.
Stone*, Tuesday. Two fresh cases of smullpox have been reported to-day from Croydon, about five miles lo the west of this city. The Board of Health have not yet decided whether a patient's children named Wyndsrom Bhall be removed to the quarantine station or be left under the care of their parents. Wednesday. A long and animated discussion took place in the Legislative Assembly lait night on the subject of a statement which had been published to the effect that the Trustees of the Milburn Creek Copper Company, to whom Parliament last year voted a sons of £17,000, have not accounted for the expenditure of £4000, and hinting that certain members of Parliament who interviewed the Government in favor of the grant, and public officials are involved in the outlay of tho £4000. Iv the course of the discussion Mr E. A. Baker, the present Secretary of Mines, who *sa» one of the trustees of the Company, was severely attacked by several speaker! for his action in connection with the grant, and ultimately the matter was referred to a Royal Commission for enquiry. Melbourne, Tuesday. Tho Victorian Parliament was adjourned to-day to the 21st September.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 189, 10 August 1881, Page 2
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196INTERCOLONIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 189, 10 August 1881, Page 2
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