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New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 16

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By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, February 8. Mr John Norton has had a long interview with Sir Henry Holland, who promised that Australia should have direct representation ou the Committee of the Emigration Bureau, but was unable to permit Mr Norton to attend the Operatives’ Conference.! The selection of a successor to Mr Custance, as Professor of Agriculture, South Australia, will not be made until the arrival of Mr Downer M.L.A. London, February 9. The French Chamber of Deputies

lias voted thirty million francs for increasing and improving the French

Davy. The Associated Chambers of Commerce have resolved to urge Mr Cecil Eaikeß, the Postmaster-General, to reduce the rates of -postage to the colonies. Kasaloula threatens to destroy the forts at Massowah, and in consequence reinforcements have been dispatched there.

(reuter’s telegrams.)

London, February 8. The death is announced of Mr Peter Bylands, M.P. for Burnley, the well-known ironmaster, aged 66. London, February 9.

A meeting of Socialists was held at Clerkenwell yesterday, and after its conclusion a body of roughs broke into and damaged several of the shops in the neighborhood. Mr J. Norton, the delegate from the New South Wales Trade and Labor Council, had an interview with Sir Henry Holland to-day, and claimed admission to the forthcoming Imperial Conference. The Secretary of State for the Colonies declined to admit Mr Norton s claim, but promised to consider the question of admitting a representative of Australian .operatives to the Emigration Bureau.