AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. (Received 9.35 a.m.) ADELAIDE, this day. An at-empt to wreck a train near Port Augusta resulted in the engine being displaced by a heavy wooden obstruction placed on the line. No damage was occasioned. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT DEFEAT. (Received 9.35 ana.) MELBOURNE, this day. The House adopted, against the Government, the Senate's request to make wire netting free.
ASSISTED EMIGRANTS.
(Received 9.35 am.) SYDNEY, this day. During the past four months 899 assisted immigrants have arrived in New South Wales. NORTH COAST RAILWAY. (Received 9.35 a-m.) • SYDNEY, this day. A tender of £430,000 for tlie first section of the North Coast railway from West Maitland to Grafton has been accepted. The estimated cost of the whole line is three millions.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 105, 2 May 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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