AUSTRALIA.
». -. .. United Press Association— By Eieotrio Telegraph— Copyright, THE TELEGRAPH UNION. MELBOURNE, July 8. Mr Drake states that the admission of the Commonwealth to the Telegraph Union as a first-class State was practically the only matter Mr Copelnnd, the Australian representative, submitted to the International Cable Conference. ; Mr Copeland was instructed to strongly oppose the- bringing, of cable rates for lines outside Europe into conformity with European rates, on th^e ground that the circumstances of the- Australian cable service were very different from those of older and more thicklyrpopulajed countries. The Conference rejected the proposal. (Received July 9, 11 «..m.) TBE RUSH TO SOUTH ATRICA. The exodus of workers to South Africa continues. It included, a number of the late railway strikers. EOOLBSL^STTCAL : PRECEDENCE. The Bishop of Melbourne, va a letW to Sir 3S. Barton, j^giwites the contention of a recent depnitation of Protestant Churdbes that the order of eccleajaetical precedence sboul<i Im. determined l <by the numerical strength 1 of the denominations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7702, 9 July 1903, Page 2
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