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AUSTRALIAN CABLES. «*' (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Pes Press Association.) Received Feb. 4, 10.25 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 4. At Bulli a miners' meeting' instructed the executive of the Colliery Employees Association to call an aggregate meeting to consider the question of resuming work. The shiftmen at the Hetton colliery at Newcastle have expressed their willingness to return to work. The Powerful leaves on a visit to New Zealand on the 16th. MELBOURNE, Feb. 4. The Postmaster-General has given instructions to carry out the recommendations' of the recent conference of telegraphic engineers. Steps will be immediately taken to improve the equipment, and separate circuits will be provided at night for newspaper work, t, Members of the State Cabinet are not inclined to take seriously Sir Reginald Enoch's proposal to acquire in the overseas Dominions. The Premier regards the lion. Taverner's suggestion that the Colonies should be represented in the House of Lords as a joke. He. estimated that under the Victorian irrigation scheme there will bo a million acres which will support 200,000 more persons than-arc already supported on the area.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9133, Issue 9133, 4 February 1910, Page 8
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180SECOND EDITION. Manawatu Standard, Volume 9133, Issue 9133, 4 February 1910, Page 8
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