NEW CALEDONIA.
ITS USE AS A PENAL SETTLEMENT [mESs as3oc?ation.l | PAWS, 23rd December. Tho Arbitration Group in the French Parliament has received a letter from the Hon. Mr. Grainger, Agont-Gonoral for South Australia, in which ho returns thanks for tho hospitality extended to him ' on a recent visit to Paris. Mr. Grainger suggests that the moment is opportune to couso using New Caledonia as a penal settlement; that such a decision would increase tho island's prosperity, and tliat Australia would ever bb grateful for such friendly consideration of her feelings. x 'lho letter bus b«cn forwarded to tho Committee of Foreign Affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1903, Page 5
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102NEW CALEDONIA. Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1903, Page 5
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