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Press Association —Telegraph.—Copyright. Received September 2, 9.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, September 2. Out of £449j000 tendered for the Board of Works £400,000 3£ per cent, loan, the public offered £249,000,. but £10,000 of this tinder conditions' rendering it "unacceptable. The amount accepted averaged £99 10a 3d. The Board appointed to report on the naval defence of the Commonwealth recommended four torpedo boats to be sold as obsolete, and another to be kept as a launch. With the boats were got some £00,000 worth of obsolete stores. BRISBANE. September 2. The Government is investigating the report that a party of police in April last-, in the vicinity of Maodonald, shot in cold blood four aboriginals who were alleged to have stolen a cow. SYDNEY, September 2. Obituary: Captain Mayne, ex-Auditor-General and the first Agent-General for New South Wales, aged 95.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 3 September 1902, Page 5
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139Australian. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 3 September 1902, Page 5
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