MELBOURNE.
July 9. A writ for £5000 damages has been issued against Mr. Berry for slander by the Daily Telegraph, for saying that that journal is subsidised by the "Victorian Association. Weiberg has been committed for trial. The Government intimated their intention to introduce a Bill to amend the electoral law, unless a Reform Bill absorbs all other measures. In the Legislative Assembly last night, on the Speaker announcing the return of Mr. Deakin, for East Bourke, Mr. Graunson moved a pi*otest. Deakin has since resigned m consequence of strictures passed upon him.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 831, 10 July 1879, Page 2
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