NEW SOUTH WALES.
Mr Butler, Q. 0., whilo making a brilliant speech ia the Supremo Court, dropped dead from aneurism ot the heart. Tho Court was immediately closed. At the quarterly dinner of Municipal Councils the toast of " The Governor" was received with mingled oheors and hisses, owing to his attitude over tho condemned criminals.
A dangerous coach accident occurred at Wagga Waggn, by which two passengers were much injured. Edwards, tha Melbourne sculler, beat Sullivan, of Syduoy, easily by a length. It is rumoured that 26 Civil Servants will be suspended for insubordination in petitioning against the promotion of a junior officer in (he Post-office over thoir heads. Mr M'Elhone, in the Assembly, oharged an; officer attaohed to the Colonial Military Force with keeping a gambling-hell in the suburbß. The officer concerned emphatically donios the charge. Two machinery annoxea, furnishing ten thousand feet of space, have been erected at the. Exhibition, which, with the shelter sheds, affords half a million feet of apace. It is intended to show tho machinery in motion, with the various processes of manufacture.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3489, 17 June 1879, Page 4
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