Australian Summary.
(Peb s.s. Tababtta, at the Bluff,)
(Pee Pbess Association.)
VICTORIA.
Melboubne, January 13.
The difficulty between the Government and Banks is still unsettled, the latter declining to amend their proposal.
The Japanese Government have granted £7000 to secure an efficient representation at the Melbourne Exhibition.
The Melbourne Irish Famine Fund amounts to £3000. J. W. Clarke Esq. gave £500, and a number of other gentlemen £100 each.
The medical men are endeavoring to obtain a le^al disqualification, preventing unqualified men from practicing.
Tho Victorian. Government profess a desire to terminate Parliament quickly, iv view of an immediate dissolution. The Governor is favourable to this course, and probably there will be a very stormy close of Parliament. Berry, speaking at GeeloDg, defended the nominee clause in very qualified terms. ,$* 'Jhe company has arranged,for regular fortnightly service to and from the colonies, alternating with the P. add O. vessels, commencing February 20. The Orient steamers proceed direct.
Naples, France, Italy, Belgium, and other countries intimate that the space asked for iv London exceeds the amount originally anticipated. Bsrry has instructed Exhibition Commissioners to provide another 100,000 feet of space. A love tragedy occurred at Emerald Hill. Wade, a fireman of the steamer Luna, endeavored to enter a house where Miss Driver, a servant, lived, who was once engaged to him, but had broken off. She refused to admit him, and he twice fired a revolver, missing, and she escaped to a neighbor's house. Wade went after her, trying to gain admittance, and blew his own brains out.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3454, 20 January 1880, Page 2
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257Australian Summary. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3454, 20 January 1880, Page 2
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