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(Press Agency.) Wellington, Aug. 22. The Government expect to bring down the Licensing Bill next Tuesday, but do not intend to stand or fall by it. A congratulatory address to the Queen on the result of the Berlin Congress was carried in the Council to-day.
(Special to the Melbourne Argus. ) London, August 20. There is great depression at Vienna in consequence of the difficulties encountered by the Austrian troops in their advance into Bosnia ; and there is immense excitement at Pesth at the losses sustained by the Hungarian troops. In reply to the statement of the Porte that she is unable to stop the insurgents, Austria has announced that further bloodshed would lead to the annexetion of Bosnia and Herzegovinio by right of conquest.
The great Powers have addressed a simultaneous remonstrance to the Porte in consequence of her refusal to cede Crete to Greece.
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Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 215, 23 August 1878, Page 5
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