AUSTRALIAN.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRATH—[Beuter’s Telegrams.] Melbourne, Jan. 18. Mr. Ford has been appointed the third member of the Railway Board. The Governor, the Marquis of Normanby, leaves for England via San Francisco in April' next. Sydney, Jan. 18. At a sale of Mr. B. Towns’s Hobartsville horses yesterday, the lots offered realised £13,000. The highest price given was £1,300 for a yearling filly. The Parliamentary Committee on Elections and Qualification have declared that the seats in the Legislative Assembly of the Hon. G. H.. Reid, Minister of Public Instruction, and F. B. Sutton, ex-Minister, are vacated by reason of informality in regard to the proclamation of their election. The Committee has Still under consideration the question of the validity of the election of the Hon. H. E. Cohen, Minister of Justice. Later. It is announced that the Government intend to introduce in Parliament a Validating Bill to meet a constitutional difficulty' which has arisen in connection with the election of some members of the present Minis-s try, through informality in connection with the Gasette proclamations.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2
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175AUSTRALIAN. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2
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