AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
jj f Mblbop^te, March 17. A Board, consisting of Mr Bosisto, Professor Ellery, and Messrs M'Gowan, Newbeny, and Phelan, has been appointed by the Government to enquire into and report on the Cerebus torpedo explosion. Sydnky, March 17. In the Legislative Assembly, to-day, the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Public Works, introduced his Public Works Statement, in the course of which he announced that it was proposed to undertake the construction of several additional lines of railway in tbe Colony, involving an expenditure of L 8,760,000. The debate on the proposal was opened, but was adjourned till Tuesday next. A bculling match, for LIOO a-side, took place to-day, on the Clarence river, near Grafton, between R'j3h and Pearce, two well-known oarsmen, and resulted in a victory for tbe former. News fr>m the Mojnt Brown diggings gives a very unsatisfactory account of the state of the field.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3917, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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