Late Australian News.
Melboubne. . A message from the Assembly was read in the Council to the effect that salaries henceforth would be paid by the President and Chairman of Committees, without being subject to the Lower House. . . ' It was announced in the Assembly that a bill would shortly be introduced, limiting the working time of engine drivers in mines to eight hours daily The subscriptions received within throe weeks after Bishop Moorhouse's*apppal on behalf of the Cathedral fund amounted to £20,000. A number of gentlemen interested in agriculture offered to lease from the Government four thousand acres, and purchase six hundred more, comprising the 1/ookie's farm, for the purpose of establishing an agricultural college. They propose spending twenty to fifty thousand pounds in the venture, and then the college is expected to be self supporting. Beisbane.
The Government are pushing on the railway surveys, and the Premier an nounced his intention to devote funds for the search for water by boring.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4000, 24 October 1881, Page 3
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161Late Australian News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4000, 24 October 1881, Page 3
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