AUSTRALIA.
(Per s.s. Easby, via Wellington.) <_ Sydney, May 12. Mr. Parkes, the Premier, is too ill to attend in his place at the House. The Government has telegraphed to Mi the War Office for assistance of an officer of the Royal Engineers or Artillery to command flke force* hcr#i
The Government, acting upon the vice of Sir William Jervoise, have telegraphed Home for a supply of MartiniHenry rifles, to come out by the mail. The country districts are talcing up the Volunteer movement. At a meeting in the Town Hall a resolution strongly in favour of placing the colony in a position to defend itself, and in favour of the formation of a Volunteer force, was enthusiastically carried. Melbourne. The Premier has arranged with the Agent-General for the transmission of a weekly message on the position of affairs in Europe. This is in conjunction with the Agents-Generals of other Colonies, who have mostly acquiesced. The messages will be despatched in the first instance to Adelaide ; then immediately to the other Colonies. The ship Erato on her passage fell in with a derelict vessel.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 88, 22 May 1877, Page 3
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183AUSTRALIA. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 88, 22 May 1877, Page 3
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