LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
HOKITIKA
August 26, 1.45 p.m. The Alabama arrived here this morning from Melbourne, with dates to 20th August , . A new bill for protection of aborigines has been read the first time. The Chief Secretary movid the abolition of State Aid in religion. A dreadful occurrence took place at Whittlesea. A Mrs Edwards was outraged, the house was fired and robbed Two days after, the perpetrator, named Jones, stabbed himself while being arrested, and died. Two new rivers have been discovered near Capa Howe; valuable quartz reefs have also been found on the watershed. The Kearsage, which sunk the Ala; bama off Brest harbor, is in Hobson's Bay. SYDNEY. August 19. The Fairfield, from Adelaide, encountered a gale off Eden, when Wo seamen were swept from the deck. Kohn and Company are insolvent • liabilities,. £50,000. ' Breadstufis are firm. The Armidale diamond has been proved to be only quartz crystal. Four more diamonds have been djdfe covered at Yass. ADELAIDE. August 17. Governor Weld and Mrs Weld have sailed for Western Australia. Gold reef discovered seventy miles I from Adelaide.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 641, 1 September 1869, Page 2
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181LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 641, 1 September 1869, Page 2
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