AUSTRALIAN NEWS
Sycyicy. N< member 18.
The defence of tbs Government has been entrusted to Mr Bibbs, who addressed a meeting at Queanbeyan and Cooma. Referring ’o the agitation for a dissolution, be admitted the Governor <ad power to dissolve, hut referred to the petitioners as a small and insignifi ant section of the community. Generally speaking his defence of Gove nment was not strong. The weather continues favorable, and a good season is anticipated. The unemployed are now almost all provided for in Queensland. The report of the death of Andrew Goldie, the New Guinea explorer, is untrue Attention has been called in the Assembly to the lack of administration iu regard to New Guinea, and the recent atrocities committed on the coast and adjaci nt islands. Mr Dickson, on behalf of the Government, s >d it was ip no wise to blame for thedelay which had occurred. Hie s ated that urgent and repeated represen tutions have been made for a settlement of the Aew Guinea Gover ment
On the airival of the steamship Corea from the New Hebrides, it was staled tnat jfcbe Corea h d visited part of the Sandwich 'elands of Malicolo and Havapah Harbor, in each of which places ■» French military stations has been established, the force at each place numbering about 100 men. Any idea of leavin' the New Hebrides is regarded by Frenchmen with amusement and laughter The captain of the City of Melbourne, with the Hon. H Lyttelton, claims to have discovered Captun Cook’s cairn, erected during his visit to tbo bndeavor River, The cairn was found on a bill 1000 ft above sea ievoj
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1415, 24 November 1886, Page 2
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274AUSTRALIAN NEWS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1415, 24 November 1886, Page 2
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