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NEWS IN BRIEF,
The municipal elections on Monday passed
off very quietly.
Mi\ Daniel Eekwick, the oldest broker on
the Adelaide Exchange, has died rit the age
of 77.
City and country students hare perused
with deep interest this week the announce
ments of University examination results.
Jabez Balfour, the perpetrator of the
gigantic "Liberator ", frauds, will spend 14
years in prison.
Alexandre Dumas, the distinguished'writer
and dramatist, is dead at the age of 71. Au
immense concourse of Parisians attended the
funeral on Sunday.
It was the special distinction of Mr. Joseph
Thompson, the English explorer, whose death
at Llw untimely age of 37 was announced the
other day, that lie never raised a rifle or
revolver against a negro and passed through
soma of the most dangerous parts of Africa
witliout the shedding of blood.
The residents of Mount Gambler were
greotly shocked on Monday by tlio suicide of
Mr. Adam Grieve, ledger-beeper at the local
National Bank. -The young man had been
suffering from religious melancholia, and
while weakenod in body by an attack of
influenza he blew out his brains with a
revolver.
Messrs. McLean Bros.' - & Bigg announce
that their annual sale of hardware is now on
atiheir extensive -premises in Hind ley Street,
Adelaide.
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