AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
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(PKB UOTTBD PBKBS ASSOCIATION.) Received September 3, at 1.15 o.m. Sydney, September 1. H.M.S. Diamond, which has been relieved on the Australian Station, has sailed to-day for Portamouth, via Auckland.
Mklboubni, SaptembM L Great excitement was oooasioned In this city, and also in Adelaide yesterday, on receipt of information that serious earthquakes had been experienced in New Zealand. Rumor got abroad that Wellington had been destroyed, and tbe excitement, then intense, was only allayed when particulars reached here. Received September 3, at 0.30! p.m.., Sydney, Septembers. Arrived, barque Zodiao, from Kslpara. Bain < has fallen generally throughout the country districts. . Mblboubne, September 8. Sailed, Botomahana, for the Bloff, : One looal foundry diieharged 200 men on Saturday. A number 'of others and also a number of factories will discharge hands during the week. Arrived—Jessie Niccol, sohooner, from, Auckland. Hobart, September 3. The dootors diffet in respeot to the oasa of the boy named Pearson, reported to bs suffering from smallpox it' Lkunceston, the majority being of .opinion that it is smallpox, whilst others think that it it a oase of ohickenpox. mii ,•
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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4203, 3 September 1888, Page 2
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