AUSTRALIAN.
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CLANCY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
SCARLET FEVER,
THE ARAWA AT HOBART—PASSENGER COMMITS SUICIDE.
FERVID SPECULATION IN MINING SHARES.
BIG BROKERS' BUSINESS.
THE NEW M.L.A. FOR PAD
DINGTON
AUSTRALIAN AVHEAT YIELD.
(Received January 13, 1.-lo p.m.)
Melbourne, This day
Clancy, who shot his father at Keraug, has been committed for trial for manslaughter. A French dramatic company is to be imported to perform here during the exhibition. The co.-t of bunging them has already be.ii defrayed by subscription. The K-.M.S. Britannia takes corn and bullion valued at one hundred and forty thousand pounds. Brisiuxk, This day. The 8..1.5. N. Company's steamer Bumba has arrived here from ' Thursday Island. Theie are thirty eases of scarlet fever still on hoard, and her passengers have been landed at the quarantine station. The vessel will be quarantined, but the crew are free from disease.
lloi>A-rr, This day.
Arrived—Shaw. Saville, Albion Com-p-my's s.s. Arawa from Plymouth, with two hundred and forty-seven passengers. During the voyage a "third-class passenger named McNeill jumped overboard. (Received loth January, 2.10 p.m.) Sydxky, This day. Tho revenue derived by the Government from the Barrier mines last year was one hundred and forty thousand pounds. The revenue from the same source is expected to exceed one million this year.
Fervid speculation iusilver mining shares still continues, and is expected to last some time, more especially with respect to the Broken Hill central mine shares, where it is understood a rich lode originally found in the Broken Hill mine his been struck. One hundred thousand piunds' worth ot business was done here yisicrday, ami at Melbourne the business done is said to average c350,0ii0 per day, one bivker. alone having earned £300 by commission in one day.
Mr All.-n, who is elected for Paddington, thoiio-h a Protectionist, was disavowed by tho Protectionist Union.
Mi-mornx**, This Jay
The Australasian gives the gross yield of wheat at an average of 12.0 bushels per a-re. and (he Leader at 12.8.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5117, 13 January 1888, Page 3
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