AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Sydney. Sir H. Parkes and Mr Foster, late Agent-General, have been nominated for the vacant University seat. Sir H. Parkes had the best o" the show of hands, and a poll was demanded. Melbourne. Mr Berry, when addressing a Reform League meeting at Brunswick,attributed the defeat of the Liber.vis t_> their inferior organisation. A meeting of the members of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was strongly hostile to the Sydney proposition to abolish proxy voting. McLaren well known as an agitator in New Zealand and Sydney, has been sentenced to four years’ for house breaking. Brisbane . Very rich finds are reported from the Palmer. The Government grant for the representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition is L4OOO. They have determined to make a thoroughly effective display. Excitement has been caused by the rumoured gold discovery at the Bunja mountains.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 258, 17 April 1880, Page 2
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