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(By Gucorßio Telegraph—Copyright. ] [Pub Press Association,] SYDNEY, May 7, (Received May 7,1894, at 11.30 a.m.) The Rev. D’Arcy Irvine, formerly headmaster ot the Napier Grammar School, is dead. MELBOURNE, May 7. It is estimated that tho railway returns for the year will show a deficit of £380,000, despite the reduction of the expenditure by £214,000. It is also understood that tho Government programme for submission to Parliament next session will contain proposals to reduce the railway freights on agricultural produce ; also for a reduction of the present prohibitive Customs duties, based on the report of the Tariff Committee ; and for the abolition of the stock tax, except on cattle. HOBART, May 7. A discovery has been made that certain shellfish in the Derwent arc prolific in pearls. Fifteen hundred gems wore gathered from this source by one person in three hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 9386, 7 May 1894, Page 2
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142INTERCOLONIAL. Evening Star, Issue 9386, 7 May 1894, Page 2
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