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(Per Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Rbdtbr's Aokncy.) I Received 1.15 p.m., Sept. sth. I Adelaide, Sept. 5. Mr Todd, the South Australian Post-mister-General, is m recept of a telegram from Berlin confirming the previous intelligence that the conference had agreed .upon a reduction m Press ratet for cable messages to Australia. The reduction of tho tariff for general messages has not yet, however, been agreed to, m consequence of the opposition shown by Germany. (Beoeived 7.45 p.m., Sopt. sth.) Brisbane, Sept. 5. News is to hand from Normantown, reporting the loss of the barque Rockharapton, 417 tons, Captain Keelin, of that place. The vessel tuck Ore and was burned to the water's edge, her destruction being completed by the ignition of a quantity of dynamite she had aboard as part of her cargo, which exploded and blew the vessel to pieces. IBeoeived 0.10 a.m., Sept. 7th.] Sybnet, Sept. 6. Arrived this morning —Barques Devonport and Zodiac from New Zealand.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3415, 7 September 1885, Page 3
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160AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3415, 7 September 1885, Page 3
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