NEWS IN BRIEF.
INVITATION TO FRANCE,
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, Doc. 18. The French Rugby Federation has received a letter from the Australian Rugby Union which suggests negotiations for the visit of a French team to Australia next summer. VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON, Dec. 18. A Victorian £16,000,0110 loan is being underwritten at 4-i{- per cent, at 97A, redeemable in 1940-60. LITHGOW MURDER. SYDNEY, < Dec. 19. After questioning, a man was arrested a.t Liverpool on Wednesday night in connection with the Lithgow murder. The police concluded that he kneiv nothing about the crime. Latest advices from the scene state that the police are inclined to believe that it may possibly have been a case of suicide. LEPERS RECOVER. BRISBANE, Dec. 19. Three patients at the Peel Island Lazaretto have been declared free of leprosy. They will be released, but will remain under observation by the Health Department and will be required to continue treatment. GOLD SPECIMENS. DARWIN, Dec. 19. A prospector named Wickham arrived at Wyndham with a. sugar-bag full of gold specimens broken from a quartz blow near the Northern Territory border. The same specimens are : stated to have assayed fifty-two ounces to the ton. The place of the discovery is approachable only by camel transport.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 5
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