AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
Adelaide, April 28. Bread has risen Id per loaf. A strike in the baking trade is threatened over the question of freedom of contract. Some time ago two blacks were shot atPinke river, as it was alleged by the black trackers. It has now been found that the trackers shot the men under instructions from Constable Wilshire, who afterwards burned the bodies. He is to be arrested. ■ Sir G. Grey is visiting Broken Hill. Melbourne, April 28, Major Churchward, member of the commission which enquired into the explosion of the gun at Queenscliff, has forwarded an individual opinion to the Government, in which he contends that if. anyone was to blame it was the Victorian Government for purchasing and using breach block mechanism of a certain type before it had been properly tested, and proved to be a success in England. A syndicate has " cornered " Bearhill gold shares, full seventeen thousand of which have been oversold at prices ranging from 15s to 30s. Many leading brokers have been entrapped into heavy losses.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9069, 29 April 1891, Page 2
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174AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9069, 29 April 1891, Page 2
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