AUSTRALIAN.
Nice legislators. Messrs Crick and Haynes had a fight in the lobbies of the House of Parliament, N.S,W„ and had to be separated by the police. Moore’s timber yard, Melbourne, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is £30,000. The insurances are £3,000. The P. and O. Co.’s s.s. Australia has delivered the English mails at Adelaide in twenty-six days, the shortest time in the history of the mail service. _ ■ Bishop Goe, of Melbourne, has issued a circular setting the 17th'inst; apart as a day of humiliation and prayer in connection with the recent financial troubles. Owing to the depression the- Australian Jockey Club (N.S.W.) has reduced the added money for the ensuing racing season by £1,700. It is estimated that the suspension of the six large banks has locked up £40,000,000, of which £19,000,000 is in Victoria, £11,000.000 in England, and the rest in the other colonies.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 5
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149AUSTRALIAN. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 5
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