AUSTRALIAN.
[reuter —COPYRIGHT.] (Received May 21, 12.45 p;m.) SYDNEY, May 21. . A special meeting, of Parliament has been called .for the 29th instant to deal with the difficulty which has arisen owing to the decision of the Supreme Court that steam motors for city tramways are illegal. MELBOURNE, May 21. The Government have decided to sell one of the new gunboats which was ordered by Sir Bryan O’Loghlen. The vessel was offered to New South Wales, but that Government has declined to purchase. ADELAIDE, May 21. Arrived, yesterday, Orient steamship John Elder, from Plymouth ; and Messageries steamship Natal, from Marseilles. Joseph Thompson, a well known bookmaker, was removed from the racing enclosure here on Saturday, for having failed to pay the necessary fees. He is threatened with an action for their recovery.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1037, 21 May 1883, Page 3
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