AUSTRALIAN.
[Per Press Association, Copyright.] MELBOURNE, Sept. 16. Mr Bell, M.L.C., who has occupied a seat in the Cabinet since its formation without salary, succeeds the late Sir J. Lovimer as Minister for Defence. Costello, who was convicted on a charge of murdering the woman Annie Thornton, at Melbourne in the beginning of July, was executed to-day. Government has abandoned the most important proposals of the timber duty relating to the increase in size of undressed blocks. Sept. 17. The man Walsh, who presented a pistol at Dillon in the street, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The floods in the Upper Murray continue, and great distress has been caused among the working classes. A relief subscription has been started in aid of the sufferers. All business in the districts affected has been suspended. The township of Cobram is four feet under water and the river is still rising. Several houses have been swept away and many abandoned. ALBANY, Sept. 17. Arrived : P. and 0. Co.'s Rosetta. Passenger for New Zealand : Mr Barker.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5571, 17 September 1889, Page 2
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