AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Sydney, July 29. Latest advices from New Guinea state H.M. ships Rapid and Harrier have shelled the village? of tbe tribes who massacred a number of Chinamen. Government have called for competitive designs for a State houae, to cost £150,000. Lord Carington has returned to Sydney. Melbourne, July 29. The Eotomabana passed Wilson's Promontory at 9 a.m. to-day, bound for this port. Hobart, July 29. 1 A vote of want of confidence in the financial proposals of the Government was moved in the House of Assembly. The division will probably take place to-morrow. It is expected that the Ministry will have a small majority. ■ (Received, July 30, 1.20 a.m.) Melbourne, July 29. The P. and 0. Company's Valeta, arrived from London, and tbe Union Company's Rotomahana from the Bluff. Tbe Austrian barque Ganges, which went ashore off Point Lonedale, near the heads on the 24tb, is still in the 1 same position. The Evening Herald states, that Melleß. Secretary of the United Mercantile Society of Australasia, bas absconded, leaving heavy defalcations.
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West Coast Times, Issue 6558, 30 July 1887, Page 2
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