AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright
Melbourne, 1 let. J 7.
Sir Hector Macdonald attended a luncheon given by the State Parliament in Ins honor. lie commended the cadet movement as the basis of an efficient defence force.
Brisbane, Oct. 17
_ The Sugar Journal, commenting on the Kanaka Bill, asserts that the highest wages will not make up for the shattered constitutions of women and children of white men employed in the cune-fields. Asiatics able to read and write the Kuropes!! language, hut useless for any industry, will he admitted, while Polynesians, many of them Christians, will be deported. The least Parliament can be asked is to place the Kanaka on no worse footing than Asiatics.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 240, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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