AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
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VICTORIA. Archibald Forbes will arrive in May on a lecturing tour.
The Minister of Railways, accompanied by several members of the Assembly at Maffra, Gippsland, spoke of the free pass system of railways, said to cost the Government £5,600 per year. It was intended to abolish the system to a large extent. - QUEENSLAND. The news of the Attorney-General's death caused profound astonishment and regret. .
Mr Mclllwraith leaves on Friday for England.
The Maryborough Chronicle states that on Tuesday last Mrs Gesch, wife of a selector in Murra Creek, left the house, leaving on the verandah, her son aged two years. She returned in ten minutes anh missed the child. A search was made but it proved futile. All hope is abandoned. The belief is that the child was stolen off the varandah by dingoes and eaten.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The Garonne arilved at Adelaideyesternight. * *
Some hard swearing by a female witness in a recent Melbourne divorce suit is accounted for by the petitioner promising to marry her when he was unhooked;
Mrs Bassett, the mother of the young woman who says she is Ned ILelly's widow, denies'the truth of the statement, and says her daughter was never'near Greta. ' • • '
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3750, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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204AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3750, 4 January 1881, Page 2
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