INTERCOLONIAL.
BRISBANE, February 3. Mr Thompson, Minister of Justice, has been re-elected for Ipswich by a majority of An aboriginal captain named Piper has been arrested for a murder committed in 1566. MELBOURNE, February 3. There is a scandal among the Reform League. An officer is alleged to have accepted LIOO to get a person appointed a magistrate; and other corruption in the Laud Office is alleged. February 4. The creditors of M'Clure, Valentine, and Co. are chiefly local. The firm's liabilities are now estimated at LI 10,000. Governor Bo wen lays the foundation stone of the proposed exhibition buildings on the 19th. Surgeon Crookc, who attended Mrs Collins, and regarding whose death an inquiry is now proceeding, has had an attack of apoplexy. SYDNEY, February 3. The prize essay has been awarded to Carl Fieldberg, a popular journalist. Owing to heavy rain, the English and Bathurst match was not played out. Captain Fraser's bodj, which was burnt aboard the brig Iserbrook six weeks ago, was recovered on Saturday on the vessel being pumped out. It was almost unrecognisable.
It is rumored that Governor Wold, of Taßmania, will be our new Governor. Wilson, alias Smith, was arrested aboard the Frances Thorpe, from London, on Saturday for fraudulent insolvency at Hull.
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Evening Star, Issue 4968, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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210INTERCOLONIAL. Evening Star, Issue 4968, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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