VICTORIA.
A deputation from the Victorian shopkeepers waited on the Government and presented a petition, containing 3000 signatures, for tho repeal of tho compulsory closing clauses m the Factories and Shops Act. A fisherman named G. Loreo and two mates arrived at Gabo Island m a boat, having been blown away from Morgan inlet. They had been five days out when they mode the lighthonse, and during that time had existed on oysters. They were very much exhausted. In tho Assembly a proposal that a nowspaper report of a meeting open to the Press j should be privileged, was negatived.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3743, 30 September 1886, Page 3
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100VICTORIA. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3743, 30 September 1886, Page 3
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