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Frees Association— By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association, OIL RUSH IN VICTORIA. A NOTE OF CAUTION. MELBOURNE, August 18. (Received August 18, at 12.45 p.m.) Traces of oil in the Lake Bunga district, Qippsland,. caused a great rush for claims. Forty thousand .acres have been pegged off, including the whole site of a township. In one direction the country has been pegged for a distance of forty miles. The Director of the Geological Survey advises caution, stating that the traces of oil found in one bore of 80ft depth are an inflammable gas, which may prove to be marsh gas. The result of the laboratory tofts will not bo known till Wednesday. THE SUDAN DISTURBANCES. CAIRO, August 17. (Received August 18, at 12.45 p.m.) It is stated that Zaghlul Pasha, who is convalescing in France, congratulated the Egyptian Government on ■ its protests against events in the Sudan.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 8
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153LATE CABLES Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 8
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