AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(ONITED PRESS AGKKOY.). 1 '* 11 P!' DESPERATE SUICIDE IN COLLINSSTREET. WHOLESALE CONFISCATION OF SMUGGLED CIGARS. '". (Per the City of New York.) Sydney, January 126. The Young Men's Christian Association have resolved to build new premises at a cost of £25,000 of which £7OOO has been subscribed. Melbourne, January 26. A determined suicide took place on the 25th, Mrs Smeaton, wife of a fruiterer m Collins-street, being rebuked by her husband for scolding a female assistant, Bwallowed a quantity of strychauine in Ins presence, and died in 15 minutes. A quarter ot a million of cigars have been seized in the Chinamen's quarter, which the authorities believe were smuggled. Criminal proceedings have been commenced against Chinamen at Echure, for smuggling opium. The Pilot Board has dismissed Pilot Lorasian for beinc drunk while in charge of the ship Melanope. The Government has determined to run a workmen's train morning and evening at uniform fare of 2d for live miles and 3d for nine miles.
Forty firms have signified their intention of exhibiting vine at the Bordeaux Exhibition. The financial statement ofthe Melbourne Hospital Bhows that the. expenditure exceeds the income by JI6OOO. •-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 989, 2 February 1882, Page 2
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192AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 989, 2 February 1882, Page 2
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