AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(PEB TABAUUA at AUCKLAND.) . _ Stdnet, May 10. General Grant is daily expected at Singapore on his way to the Sydney Exhibition. Ihe Peak Downs mine has proved a dead failure. There is now great distress prevailing among the families of miners.
The yield of sugar in the Logan .District last year was over 14 tons per acre. The appearance of the cane was magnificent. Mr. I. J. Sadlin, formerly police magistrate at Tamho, attempted suicide on his way to answer a charge of embezzling savings bank funds.
Mr. O. P. Wills, police magistrate at Normantown, has been drowned while out duckshooting. Six hundred Chinese have arrived at Port Darwin, and five hundred more are expected shortly by the steamer Bowen.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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122AUSTRALIAN NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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