AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
BRISBANE
December IS. The conviction of Captain Coath, of the Jason has been confirmed. The- submarine cable from Java to Port Darwin was successfully laid on the 20th November, and is working well. The Soutli Australian line is incomplete, and an officer of that Colony was sent to Nornianton to forward despatches there. On the 15th of December only twenty-nine miles of the Queensland line was unfinished,,'which will be completed before the end of the present month. December 22.
The Eclipse Expedition leave for -Sydney, on Saturday morning. The members were handsomely entertained by the Queensland Government, and they had free quarters at the Queensland Club. They had an excursion by special train to the Darling Downs, and on the return journey picniced in the mountains at Highfields.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 613, 29 December 1871, Page 2
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130AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 613, 29 December 1871, Page 2
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