SYDNEY.
This Day. M. Fitzpatrick has been elected Leader of the Opposition m the Assembly. Lady Robinson laid the foundation stone of the central tower of the Exhibition Buildings yesterday, m the presence of a large Assembly. Serious bush fires are raging m the Albury district. A bushranger, at Wagga, stuck up a hawker. He was, however, subsequently captured, selling the jewellery he had stolen. The Balina has been wrecked on Port Macquarrie bar. No lives lost. The steamer is broken m two. Captain Daly, master of the Heather Bell, has been sentenced at Fiji to six months imprisonment, and a fine of £150, for illegally detaining Islanders at Cooktowu.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 627, 15 February 1879, Page 2
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