AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE KAURI TIMBER COMPANY 1 Sydney, September 1. _ The share list of the Kauri Company is closed, nearly the whole of the issue being taken up. MANSLAUGHTER AT SEA. MELi:euRNE, September 1. Theodore Hansen, convicted of killing one of the crew of the schooner Lucania, on the voyage from New York, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for manslaughter. THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION, Melbourne, September 1. During the month 312,000 people visited the Exhibition, and the receipts for admission were £15,600. AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCE. Sydney, September 1. Baron Von Mueller has been elected president of the Australasian Society for the Advancement of Science for 1889. PRAYERS FOR RAIN. Sydney, September 1. _ Special services of prayer for rain were held in various parts of the colony yesterday. SMALLPOX IN TASMANIA. Hob art, September 1. A boy named Pearson has been di& covered to be suffering from smallpox of a mild form at Launceston. H.M.S. DIAMOND. Sydney, September 2. H.M.s. Diamond, which has been re lieved on the Australian station, sailed to-day for Portsmouth, via Auckland
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9149, 3 September 1888, Page 3
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