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[ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Melbourne, Oct. 18. The tailors' strike has ended, by the masters agreeing to give tenpence, elevenpence, and a shilling per hour for third, second, and first class work.
The bakers threaten to strike on Saturday next for eight hours and higher wages.
The rowing season was opened on Saturday. There is a bitter feud raging between the " Age " and the management of the Theatre Royal.
A man hid himself in the hollow of a tree, in Sandhurst, and committed suicide.
The Post Office Savings Banks for the future will give four per cent, interest. The Government are collecting evidence to prove that the Buckley will, leaving thirty thousand to old Maher, is a forgery. Parliament have authorised the Government to buy the Hobson's Bay line at a fair price. The company ask one million three hundred and twenty-six thousand pounds. Mrs Shannon's trial, for a third time, takes place in November, on a charge of poisoning her child. The sole issue at the next general election will be the reform of the Constitution, with the object of bringing the two Chambers into harmony. Sydney, Oct. 18. There is a flourishing state of finance, and the estimated surplus on the year of half-a-million increases the popularity of the Government. The Mail Contract Bill will pass. Adelaide, Oct. 18. A pamphlet is to be issued, officially, to encourage German immigration. Locusts threaten the crops. . Celt won the Hunt Club Steeplechase Cup.
Brennan's fellmongeiy, at Hindmarsh, has been destroyed by fire.
Hobakt Town, Oct. 18. The new steamer Tasmania has arrived from Glasgow, dismasted.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1631, 27 October 1873, Page 2
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