BRIEF MENTION.
Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, has arranged for a strong London committee for the Exhibition to be held at Launceston this year. Her Majesty’s ships Tauranga and Eingarooma, two of the Australian cruisers, will be commissioned on the 20th inst., and afterwards manned at Devonport, their complement being 212 men each. Mullet, ore of the Irish Invincible!, convicted of taking part in the Phoenix Park murders, has been released from gaol. The fire which gutted Hegmann’s Theatre, in Fifth avenue, New York, and injured Stnytevant House, originated through the electric light wires. The census shows the United States birth rate to be 2,000,000 below that of the previous decade. The Hawaiian Government are parleying with the Government of Canada for Improved trade relations.
The Natives of the Caroline Islands attacked the Spanish troops, but were repulsed under heavy fire from the Gatling guns, and lost heavily. At the request of Messrs Parnell and Harrington, an interview will take place toj day between Messrs Healy and O’Brien.
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Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 1
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171BRIEF MENTION. Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 1
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