INTERCOLONIAL.
(By Electric Telegraph—Oopybiobt ] [Per Press Association.] PERSONAL. SYDNEY, September 1. Lady Jersey, accompanied by Captain Leigh, visits New Zealand at the end of December or early in January. SATISFACTORY. MELBOURNE, September 1. The Victorian shearers have accepted the agreement arrived at with the Sydney Pastoral Convention. STOCK-BREEDING. MELBOURNE, September 1. The Ayrshire cattle breeders are forming a society to maintain the purity of the breed. WANTED. MELBOURNE, September 1. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Beli, a clerk in the British Bank, which failed last month, on a charge of mutilating the books and destroying records and entries, in order, presumably, to prevent detection of fraud. PASSENGERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. ALBANY, September 1. Arrived: Massilia, from Brindisi. Passengers for New Zealand : Mr and Mrs J. Ross and daughter. THE GAMBIER COLLISION. MELBOURNE, September 1. Two steerage passengers, named Miller and Quinn, who were reported to have been drowned in the Gambier, travelled by another steamer. This reduces the list of casualties to twenty-one. A passenger by the Gambier controverts the statement that the Easby's people were slow in coming to their rescue. He alleges that the lashings of the Gambler's boats rendered it impossible to lower them in less than ten minutes.
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Evening Star, Issue 8609, 1 September 1891, Page 2
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206INTERCOLONIAL. Evening Star, Issue 8609, 1 September 1891, Page 2
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