NEW SOUTH WALES.
The question of abolishing the tonnage dues on deck cargo having been brought under the notice of the Treasurer, principally "by firms engaged in the intercolonial trade, he gave instructions to cease making such collections. Five officers and 122 blue jackets arrived here from London in the Gauntlet, for distribution in the war schooners employed on this station. Mr George Myers has been presented with an illuminated address and 150 sovereigns .on retiring from the presidency .of the Jewish Synagogue. A-young man named Martin Cass, working on a farm at Cowra, became entangled in a ' threshing-machine, and • died from the effects of "the injuries ho received.. Three deaths have occurred at Grafton from sunstroke. - * '
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Southland Times, Issue 3342, 7 March 1879, Page 3
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