AUSTRALIAN.
Melboxjbne, This day, Mail Steamer Quarantined.
The P. & O. ateamer Victoria has arrived, with one of the native crew suffer* ing from a disease suspiciously like small pox. She has been quarantined in consequence.
Hobabt, This day.
The Federal Council
The Federal Council is discussing Mr Sbielß* motion to Joffer better facilities for British settlers in tho Now Hebrides. Mr MacCrossar said the Victorian Government wag practically asking Great Britain to assume the sovereignty of the islands in defiance of the agreement with France.
. Adelaide, This day. A Trans - Continental Eail"way.
A Koyal Commission has been appointed to enquire into the advisability of con* Btructing a railway line to the Queensland bordej?,
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6788, 23 January 1891, Page 4
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