AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(Per Press Association—Copyright ) Received to-day at 10.31 a m MELBOURNE, This Day, FREE PRESS MESSAGES
Mr Drake, the Federal Post-master-General, has received the text of the proposal for free press messages from " Canada. Tho communication states that by way of experiment, and with a view to other arrangements being eventually into, Australia and New Zealand should be invited to join with Canada in asking the cable Board to transmit five hundred words daily cither way. Mr Drake has officially replied that the Postal Act precludes the Commonwealth entertaining the proposEARTHQUAKE. ADELAIDE, This Day. A slight-shock of earthquake has been felt on the South coast. BIBLE-BURNING. SYDNEY, This Day. Dr. Brown, a member of the Mc- ■ thochst Commission investigating j the work of the Mission at Fiji, t states he is satisfied of the accu'rf acy of Mr Burns' statement re- ! lative to the Bible-burning eni- [ sode.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7545, 19 May 1903, Page 8
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148AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7545, 19 May 1903, Page 8
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