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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1870, 30 December 1874, Page 2

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8 dnev, Dec. 23. Sullivan still remains in gaol. The steamship' proprietors refuse to convey him to .New Zealand. The ship Apelles reports seeing a burning ship soon; after having Calcutta ; nam»* unknown. The boat beached rear Cape Morelon, with two evident escapes from $ew Caledonia, had only one oar, make shift rudder, spri'sail of bagging and jib, lib biscuit and a pint cf wafer aboaid, and no compass; steered by the sun, Tho names given are Crone and Busnot. It has been decided to open advanced

classes for girls in connection with the Brisbane Grammar School. The Victorian Appropriation Bill has passed all its stages. The Prorogation takes pi Hce pa Tuesday;. A nothcr wonoan has. cdmmitted suicide in the Yarra. She left a note giving her watch and locket to whoever found her. A Commission has been appointed for the intercolonial Exhibit ion, to be held in Melbourne in August prior to the Philadelphia Kxhibition. Seventeen boxes of silk and grain were shipped from Brisbane to England The sch'oner Jsabella arrived in the Mackay Kiver, Queensland, from the S"lom n Islands, fche brings the report that the second mate, of the brig James Bernis; and boat's crew had arrived there. ■She also reports t!iat a vessel was taken by the Natives, and all hands massacred at Lord 11 owe Island. . ■ , • A moonlight concert took place in the Melbourne < otanical Gardens in aid of the Orphan Asylum, and was a great success. Simpson, of tho Epsom Branch Bank of Victoria, has been arrested on a charge of . of forgery. Daily telegraph communication with Singapore and Adelaide has been established by nieans of a floating station. The racp horse Prot>s was sold for 260 guineas to Mr Clibborn.

Wellington, This day. A great many unemployed, or partially unemployed men are hanging about the town, disliking to go into the country. An advertisement for a storeman for one of our merchants was answered this morning by over two hundred applicants. A few days ago about the same number applied for a situation for driring a I baker's earfc. * j Chbistchubch, This day. Another branch railway, thirty miles long, from the Eacecourse Station, near Christchurch to the South Bridge, will be opened for general traffic in February. The Acclimatisation. Society have decided to request the Superintendent to remove the protection from house sparrows, which have become a nuisance in the province, and to sanction the issue of licences for fishing for trout in the rirer Avon. •