News in Brief.
Mr Want, Attorney-General of New South Wales, will visit New Zealand on a holiday trip next week. A bomb exploded in a chemist's shop at Cassano, South Italy. Five people- were killed aud six injured, The Parsons turbine, a newin* vention, has been applied to a vessel at Newcastle, which easily registered 29 knots an hour with its aid. Mr Gresswell, President of the Board of Health, Melbourne, is of opinion that if the Oriental bubonic plague spreads to the Old Country the greatest care will be necessary to prevent it extending to Australia. The matter is sufficiently important to justify an intercolonial conference, on the subject being held without delay. TunfrjSir Ro'bertPeel has been ordered to restore to his family a quantity of plate and other heirlooms, valued at £3OOO, which he had converte A to his own use.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XIV, Issue 2610, 23 December 1896, Page 2
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143News in Brief. Woodville Examiner, Volume XIV, Issue 2610, 23 December 1896, Page 2
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