AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[By Telegraph.] (For City of Sydney at Auckland.) VICTORIA. Meluournh, Doc, 30. Archibald Forbes has arrived on his lecturing tour. The Minister of Railways, accompanied by several Members of the Assembly at Matfr, Gippsland, spoke of the free pass system on the railways. He said they cost the Government .£SOOO a year, and it intended to abolish them to a large extent. QUEENSLAND. T 1 ie nows of the Attorney-General’s death caused profound astonishment and regret. Mcllwraith leaves on Friday for England. The il Maryborough Chronicle ” states that on Tuesday last Mrs Gesch, the wife of a selector on the Murray Creek, left her house, leaving on the verandah her son, aged two years. When she returned ten minutes afterwards the, child was missing. A search was made but proved fruitless, and all hope is now abandoned. It is believed the child
was stolen off the verandah by Dingoes and eaten. The Garonne arrived at Adelaide yesternight. NEW SOUTH WALES. At Oabarfoot the water in the public tank is doled out at the rate of a bucket per head per day. The weather is frightful.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2432, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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187AUSTRALIAN NEWS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2432, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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