AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(By Telegraph.) (Per steamer at Wellington.) Sydney, July 27. Mr Farnoll, the Minister of Lands, has explained that lie is not responsible for the recent utterances attributing to him s> desire to secure the Premiership. He says it is not tho fault of the newspaper reporters, but that of mixing up what other people said and he had said. Yesterday, during a high wind, a portion of the scaffold of tho new Medical School, now m course of erection m the University grounds, fell with a crash. Luckily no ono was near at the time. The work of saving cargo from the Cahors proceeds rapidly, 'ihere is every chance of saving the vessel. Captain Knight, one of the oldest of the A.S.N. Company's commanders, died suddenly this morning. Melboubne. The Government have decided to make several important alterations m the armament of the forts, and a new fort, for the defence of the channel, is to be erected, mounted with two nine-inch and two six-inch breech-loading guns, to cost £110,000.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3387, 5 August 1885, Page 3
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