ENGLISH.
London, October 6,
The Western Australian Land Company, ■which constructed the Southern railway in that colony, has agreed to sell the line to the Government for the sum of .£1,100,000. Thh West Australian Cabinet recently decided to purchase the line, subject to Parliamentary sanction. Herr Raffel, German Assessor at Dar-es-Salam, near Zanzibar, succeeds Herr Schmidt as Municipal President at Apia, the capital of Samoa.
London, October 7.
For some time past the Queen's eyesight has been failing, and Professor Pagenslicker, a German oculist, who has been engaged to examine her eyes, denies that a cataract has formed.
During the month of September the imports increased by £2, 492,302, and the exports by <£335,142. The new Manchester railway requires 14 acres of the Marylebone Cricket Ground for a terminus. Lord Portman claims .£400,000 as compensation.
London, October 9
Sir Henry Norman, ex-Governor of Queensland, in the course of a lecture delivered to the Manchester Geographical Society, said Australia was hardly alive to the danger to be anticipated from the hostility of Asia.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1285, 15 October 1896, Page 36
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