AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [BY Klkctuio TeijIMIIAHH— CamuouT.] Aui:l4.xdh, January 14. Eight hundred and sixty men are at present engaged gathering rubies over a larce area, in the Alice Springs district, while many others arc working on a good goldfieid. Butsbaxh, January 1-1. John Wallis Ruttcr, Mayor of North Eockhainpton, who was arrested on a charge of forgery, and who attempted to qommit suicide in prison, has been committed for trial. The forgeries have been ascertained to .m-.ount to £9300. Melbocjin'b, January I I. Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General, wires to the Government that the Admiralty are willing to survey the route of the proposed Pacific: cable if the colonies will bear the cost. Two hundred ritlomen will go to Sydney from this colony to take part in the shooting contest in connection with the Centennial. THE LATEST. Received January 16th, 12.30 p.m. SvnNliY, January 1(1. The monkey-house in the Zoological Gardens was burnt down, and a number of valuable and rare monkeys, birds and snakes were destroyed.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2421, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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168AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2421, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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