AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
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(/'<■/■ /'/I fS A"xnriathilt. ( '<>l>!/ri;lllt.) Svi).\i;y, This day. Postmaster-General Cook is highly satisfied with the report of the Pacific Cable Conference. He thinks it will result in the matter being gone on with at once. lie is much gratified that the Conference has adopted nearly all the recommendations of the /Australian colonies:. Melhoi knk, This day. An inlluential deputation of the Presbyterian Assembly drew the attention of the Premier to the influence the' French were' gaining in the Mew Hebrides, and to the action of the French traders who were carrying oil in lire arms and li<pior. Tliev urged that the mutter be considered at. the meeting of the Federal Council. Mr Turner promised ti> bring it under the notice of the Council. The revoher which Phillips posted to his brother on the day succeeding the murder of Brady has been recovered, and blood stains were found on it. Pi>in Dak win, Jan. 1">. Four of the London Pearling Company's luggers were lost and -even of their crews drowned during the reo-n: cyclone.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 222, 16 January 1897, Page 3
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176AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 222, 16 January 1897, Page 3
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