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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3681, 12 October 1880, Page 3

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Sydney.

The success of Laycock created great excitement in Sydney. Flags were hoisted. '

Dismissed civil servants at a meeting decided to demand three months' notice.

South Attstealia,

Attention was called in the Assembly to the enormous increase of Chinese in the Northern Territory.

Private advices from London report a decided advance in the English wheat market.

Melbotjene.

A passenger by the Aconcagua was discovered with three hundred watches and a quantity of jewellery in bis possession. The goods were impounded. A desparate struggle with burglars at Collingwood occurred on being disturbed while robbing the house of Mr McKinley. They were seized by the civilians; an attempted rescue was made and a fight ensued. The burglars were over-powered and tied with ropes. During the conveyance of the prisoners to the lockup, some lairikins affected a rescue.

A grand ball took place at Government House on the sth. Three thousand invitations were issued.

Queensland. /» The naturalist, Albert Ross, was three amongst the Northern Blacks. He was treated kindly. Harrison, a merchant, knocked down Travares, the actor. He was fined.

The Rev. Mr Chalmers and Mr Biswick Bend details of the murder of seven Chinese by the New Guinea natives. The Chinese were fishing for bSech-la-xner. The natives were dissatisfied with the pay, and the Chinese habitually molested the women. They were warned by native teachers. The natives attacked them in great numbers, stormed and captured the junk. Some of the Chinese escaped in boats.