THE CONVENTION.
j; ■■.• . • • — ■■» :y , • ■ f iii;.i .-. 0' ;. (JBY BLBCTBIO TELEGBAPH.-^OEYBjagT,) .., j (rKOTER's IBLEaaAMB.) ' _ §TDNIT, December 3. ; At tq-day'a, sitting of. the Conference the question of annexation was not dealt with. A long discussion tool place on the • subject of federatibn. i; All the delegates! spoke and finallj r *a""sub-conimittee'» Was appoifite&to'cbiisideF the beifc means of I constituting a Mdrali Council and decidiug upon its functions. Mr "Whifaker laid-on'the tablecertoin amendments to 1 the ' report dt the committee •■ on annexation, • but : 'they mwke no su-bstantial eharige iil'theT'e-; port. ••• , ••• 3;1 p "" " ' ; ;•' ' I Sr Fraseripi^seACed^MtefrdtiiMr Browne, Governor of Wfest 'Aartralia,' notaWjr the question of cable comniunit&tion- with* Geylonr. ! M : ?^ Broome points out that communioation by land tptegr'ap-WitH (te ; Opaatf of :{W<^Anktr^li^wjll soori : be completed; 0: '= !:I ■ \ The Conference adjourned «t ; ntidday : until to mori^biv. ' ' ■' J '"'"' ;r! - : "' ; -'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 5, 4 December 1883, Page 2
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133THE CONVENTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 5, 4 December 1883, Page 2
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