AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SYDNEY.
April 20. The Queensland Government lias telegraphed to the authorities of Hongkong, warning them that the Northen goldfields cannot possibly support an extensive influx of Chinese, and urgently impressing the necessity of the entire stoppage of iinnrigration. There is no tentage accommodation at Fitzroy for 1700 Chinese gone there, and it is feared great sickness and starvation will result. , ■ ■ Tuesday. The prisoner Newman has been sen-: tenced to death for the violation and murder of a girl named Maegregor. He confessed his crimes. A farewell soiree was given ' to the Rev. James Niven on leavingfocOtago. John George, aldrrmaii of Batkurst, coinmifcte.l suicide by taking strychnine,
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 54, 25 April 1877, Page 2
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