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AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
[fbom the daily papebs.]
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Sydney. Saturday.
There has been £16,000 collected for the
St. Mary's (B.C.) Cathedral bnilding fund
during the past year.
The Melbourne Football Club defeated the
combined team from the Sydney and East
Sydney Clubs on Saturday, at the Association
grounds, by five goalB to nil. The
weather was very fine.
Monday.
Encouraging news has been reoeived from
Temora. Splendid stone has been discovered
at 'Possum and Power's Reefs. Bourke's
party have again struck very rich stone, and
have refused an offer from Melbourne to
float a company. Good gold is being obtained
at a rush near Agnes Beef.
Considerable excitement is manifested
about the Bellinger reef, in the Maoleay
district. Four ounces of quartz from the
prospectors' olaim gave 16gr. of gold. Good
reports have also been, reoeived from the
Tuena reefs, near Goulburn.
Three hundred ounces of gold were brought
into Wiloannia last week from the Mount
Browne Diggings. Another rush is reported
to have taken place near the Queensland
boundary, and not far from the recent
Granite rush.
A brutal assault upon a Chinaman was
committed at Parramatta by some larrikins.
He was severely maltreated, and is in a
dangerous state.
Sir Patriok Jennings has presented a
valuable statue to St. Patrick's Roman
Catholic Church, Parramatta.
Tuesday.
In the Assembly to-night, a proposal for
the abolition of fees in elementary schools
provoked a long debate, but was eventually
negatived by forty-two to twenty-two.
Mr. Thomas Walker, of Oonoord, has made
the munifioent donation of £5000 to the
Sydney University.
Colonel Scratohley will not be able to join
Major-General Fielding in the transcontinental
railway, expedition to northern
Queensland.
Commodore Wilson entertained the Earl of
Clanwilliam and the officers of the squadron
at dinner to-night.
The question of organising an expedition
in search of the remains of Leichardt was
brought under the notice of the Premier today.
Dr. Lwdau, a German scientist, is
anxious to clear up the mystery of the fate of
the explorer. Sir Hemy Parkes promised
full consideration.
Encouraging news has arrived from Mount
Poole diggings. Three hundred ounces were
brought into Wiloannia last week. . Every
coach leaying for the diggings is well filled.
One man brought .from Mount Poole, where
the reefs are dtaatod, ahanilkerohief full of
quartz ..from his,, cty^/jwjbiah, roughly
crushed, yielded loz. ofgold. PpoTisions are
^prte^tq beplentafjil. Bu^Jies are obtained
from Port Augusta. -
!: Wednesday.
_ A, telegram j from the, warden at Mount
Browne states that the crfcek there is. quite i
My.^aud^hp diggingsiin^the locality.conseqpptly
,deserted, only^bout tone hundred
men ; remaining. The remainder are disposing
ipywous,-directions. .One ipartyin b euIIy
on ;the.:Whitabneena .Ranges got! 30oz. of
,
•It is jtow(stated by EearrAdmiril the -Bad
g.rGkftjgluw, that•j when:lAe; repairs; to
tLM&p jsttcc/Hinte 'are. completed, elie iwfll
op®* o» W,and, that, jhis Excellency the
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