DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
Sydney, this day. The benefits of the' recent rains are rapidly disappearing, and the country is fast drying up" again. The weather now is intensely hot, and bush fires ai'e recommencing, so that the prospfects are cliscouraging to the farming interest. Melbourne, this day. Henderson^ a clerk in the stamps department, disappeared suddenly, and his whereabouts not yet ascertained. An investigation of accounts show that frauds have been perpetrated. One of the principal witnesses ill the case against Buttler has committed! suicide.
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Northern Advocate, 8 December 1888, Page 3
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