AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
{"reuter's special cablegrams.] MELBOURNE, May 10. Mr-Fournier was elected to the Legislative Council unopposed. An inquiry h.as been instituted into the case of Mr Monk, of Wombat. The prize-fighters have been charged with conspiring to commit a breach of the peace, but the enquiry has been postponed. The Governor at Geelong, last night, m his speech, strongly urged that the people should be induced to settle on the land. He considered it a not unmixed good for the inhabitants of a new country to be gathered In the towns, or employed m the factories. He spoke eulogistically of representative institutions. The Mount Macedon State Forest was thrown open for selection yesterday. There was a great rush of selectors, who are said to number 2000.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1074, 13 May 1879, Page 2
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126AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1074, 13 May 1879, Page 2
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