AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Reuter's Special to Star.]
MELBOURNE, Yesterday.
The returns of the census taken on the night of the 3rd ultimo, showed the total population of the colony of Victoria to be 860,000.
Private telegrams from England state that the Highland Railway Company received the amount of insurance on the steamer Ferret, alias India, which was reported at Home to have been lost. In the Legislative Council last night, the Reform Bill, which was received from the Legislative Assembly, was under discussion in committee. Amendments were made in the direction of assimilating the provisions of the measure to those of the bill which originated in, and was passed by, the Legislative Council.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 111, 7 May 1881, Page 2
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