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Pres3 A.Bsooiatioa— Blaatrio Telegraph— Oapyrtgh SYDNEY, Feb. 8. Arrived : Waihora. Feb. 9. — At the conference between the miners and owners of Stockton mine the latter declined to reopen the proposal refused by the men to accept a hewing rate of 4s 2d per ton with concessions on other rates. The owners informed the men that they could return to work at the rate of 3s 2d, which was the district rate, but they declined absolutely to discharge freemen should the miners return. The Intercolonial Shearers' Conference has decided to instruct shearers to refuse employment through the Pastoral Union, or to take or give referenciea. MELBOURNE, Feb. 8. Arrived : German warship Falke from Capetown. Feb. 9. — Bennett, who shot dead a boy named Jox, who was irritating him, was convicted on a charge of murder and sentenced to death. The judge, m pasaingsen* tence, said he would recommend a reprieve owing to the great provocation to which the prisoner had been subjected. The German warship Falke is bound to Samoa.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6898, 9 February 1894, Page 2
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