AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
■ » ~ ■^— Melbourne. A verdict has been given for the defendant in the action for libel against the Trades Protection Circular. The Loch Ard concert added L4OO to the fund. The Minister for Railways, in reply to a question, said that L 200,000 had been spent on the Spencer-street Station. The Postmaster-Qeneral things favorably of establishing a penny post, and of the proposal to carry newspapers free, An attempt hag been made to exterminate rabbits by means of sulphur fumes. An amateur Blondin, calling himself Henry Ruffin, was killed by a fall from a wire stretched over a street at Geelong. Melita is still first favorite for the Cup. Patrick Grey, a draper at Hotham, has committed suicide. . Mr. Hyndman, City Surveyor, is dead. Sydney. L 2500 has been subscribed to the Mort memorial. Goldsworthy's store at Newcastle has been burnt down. Adelaide. No more bodies belonging to the James Service have been found. The brig Ella Gladstone has been condemned, A man named Boyd has been seriously injured by his wife pouring kerosene over him and lighting it.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 731, 13 August 1878, Page 2
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