AUSTRALIA.
1 : ■-& (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS PER PRESS , : AGENCY.) MELBOURNE, April 1. Mr Childcrs acts as Agent-General for Victoria, without pay. Mr Levy had an interview with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who wished success to the Victorian Exhibition . SYDNEY, Ayril 1. The Lithgow iron works' blast furnace has started making, rails 'for the extension, of the railroad into the city for tlie Exhibition. Ot the population at. the lower Palmer in Queensland, the majority are prostrate with fever, destitute, and the resources of Jjhe hospital are exhausted. . , ; , _ . . - , The manufacture of rails for the extension of the railroad into the city, ancl to the exhibition building, has been commenced at the Lithgow iron foundry. — • 'The revenue returns for the quarter ending March 31st, disclose a falling off of £74,000 compared with the corresponding -quarter of 1878. The land revenue,. alone, produced £100,000. The" Customs returns' decreased, and those of railways have increased.
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Southland Times, Issue 3364, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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