AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
(PER S.S. HEIIO.) SYDNEY. September 30. The Roman Catholic agitation against the public schools has caused a counter movement, and meetings have been held declaring that the time has come when denominational aid to the schools shall cease. Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and other clergymen took part. Complaint is-made by the leading merchants of Sydney that the Exhibition is being turned into a bazaar,- exhibitors selling their goods freely. MELBOURNE. September 30. The Queensland Government have received proposals from the Mennonite Bishop of South Russia, to locate fifty families in the Central Queensland District, if the Government will pay half their passage, The offer will probably be accepted. A. Chinese junk, from New Guinea, picked up by a schooner, reports the na:ives of New Guinea are quiet,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 285, 9 October 1879, Page 2
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