It is suggested to have photographs taken of all unidentified bodies taken to the Melbourne morgue. A movement was on foot in Sydney for the creation of a fund to pay the travelling expenses of the Very Rev. Dean Cowper to England, and already close upon £SOO had been subscribed. The New Tabernacle in Elizabeth-street, Sydney, is advancing rapidly towards completion. It is a very handsome building, and will cost over £20,000, the whole of which sum is now ready. At a complimentary lunch to the Rev. Dr. McDowd, in Melbourne, who left by the mail to represent the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, a purse of 300 sovereigns was presented to him. Some excitement was caused in Pitt-street, Sydney, through the hoisting of a gigantic safe into an upstair room of a branch Bank of New Zealand. Shears were erected for the purpose, and strong tackle used, and during the progress of the wbrk there were hundreds of spectators present.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 233, 26 February 1876, Page 22
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160Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 233, 26 February 1876, Page 22
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