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Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 475, 30 May 1891, Page 3

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„ y ; Home and Foreign. - ..■■■• "(*%& '^fiSBS ASSOCIATION.) ' : ; -.;•;•:;;-'. : ! : HLootion, May J28. ; The general opinion in the city is that Queensland ought to issue a short term of Treasury Bills or renew debentures for six months; It,, js reported, that the Queensland National Bank was ready to subscribe if the public had offered half. Arohbishop Croke in a speech at Limerick said he was greatly afraid the cause of Home Eule was lost. ( People were utterly . unfit to "rule' if. they sympathised with Parnell. . . ; /Seugt.tMcLauchlin of the Violettown Yictorien Kifles, won the first prize : at the military tournament for tilting in the ring. Private Mawley of SJale,in Gippsland, tied for the first prize in tent pegging, with,, the, highest .possible score. Mawley and Corporal Martin, of Thoona, tied with three others for the second prize at lemon cutting. It. js reported that the Chartered Company's forces have defeated the Portugese volunteers , on the river Wembe. ; ' : Sydney, This day.. The Tekapo was quarantined on arrival as there was a child suffering iron! measles on board. The attack is , only a slight one, and the child ha^'been quararitined, &nd the rest of the passengers released; ■■ : ~ *>'. The intentions, of the Government with'respectto the recent vote on the want of confidence motion will not be disclosed before I>arliameets again on Tuesday. . .