AUSTRALIAN.
Melbourne, Thursday. A board, consisting of Mr Bosisto, Professor Elley, and Messrs McGowan,
Newberry, and Plielan, has been appointed to enquire into and report upon the Cerberus torpedo explosion. Melbourne, This day. • Major W. C. Smith, the Victorian Minister of Education will shortly proceed to England on a trip for his health. The board appointed to enquire into the management of the police force, particu larly with reference to the Kelly outbreak, has commmenced its sittings. Sydney, Thursday. In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Hon. John Lickey, Minister for Public Works, introduced his Public Works Statement, iv the course of which he announced that it was proposed to undertake the construction of several additional lines of railway in the colony involving an expenditure of £8,750,000. The debate on the proposal was opened, but was adjourned until Tuesday next. A sculling match for £100 a side took place to-day on Clarence river, near Grafton, between Rush and Pearce, two well-known oarsman, and resulted in a victory for the former. News from Mount Brown diggings gives very unsatisfactory accounts of the state of the field.
Sailed : The Union Company's s.s. Te Anau, for Auckland.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3813, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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193AUSTRALIAN. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3813, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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