AUSTRALIA
r__o___ _ T____-A_B.] Received December 6th, 10 pjn. MELBOURNE, December 6. Ihe New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, at their wool sale today offered 4200 bales; 3500 bales were sold at exceUent prices, fine sorts being in very good demand. There was a good attendance of. home and foreign buyers, and good competition was experienced. Prices were firmly maintained. It £3 now known that Martin Weiberg, of the Avoca gold robbery, waa not drowned at Waratah Bay, as reported a few weeks ago; but is alive, and was a passenger to England by the. steamship Sorata, which left here on the Ist inst. | Received December 6th, 1 p.m. SYDNEY, December 6. A telegram _as read at the Convention yesterday announcing that France lays claim to the foUowing islands or groups in the Pacific:—New Caledonia, Loyalties, Pines (New Hebrides), Marquesas (eleven islands) ; Societies, Tahiti, Mobrea; Low Archipelago (eighty islands); Australs, < Tubuai, Koito, and Bapa. France is j wiUin that the Leeward Islands near Tahiti should be independent. Received December 6th, 10 p.m. SYDNEY, December 6. Sailed, this afternoon, the steamship Zealandia for Auckland, and the Wakatipu for Wellington. The former took specie valued at -250,500 for San Francisco.
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Press, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5685, 7 December 1883, Page 3
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