LATE CABLES.
« By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, January 2. The reveuue for the year exceeds that of IW7 by upwards of _3<)U,--.. Terrible gales swept the east end of the Solomon Island group at the end of November, destroying houses and plantations in all directions. The schooner Lizzie was caught in a gale and dismasted. She had a narrow escape of foundering, and was so much damaged' that she was eventually condemned. She was insured in the South British office. Melbourne, January 2. It is proposed to expend £188,000 to support a defence force of 12,000 men. , Adelaide, January 2. Lambert, driver of the coach which fell over a precipice yesterday,' is dead. Receired January 3. 12.30 p.m. Melboubne, This Day. Ab the steamer Hauroto, from Fiji, was coming up Hobson _ Bay in a blinding squall yesterday she collided ■ with the ship King Arthur. ship was cut down to the waters 1 ' edge, but was immediately'towed to a place of safety. . Brisbane, Tbia Day. In consequence of the heat, the death rate at Croydon is very heavy, and Life.. Insurance Companies are refusing insu&Y ances. V
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 77, 3 January 1889, Page 2
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189LATE CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 77, 3 January 1889, Page 2
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