AUSTRALIAN.
ANNEXING PACIFIC ISLANDS. BEUTEB'S TKLEGBAMS. Received July 12, 0 15 a.m7 '..' •' Melboubne,- July ll.v Arrived, this afternoon, the. Union Steamship, Wairarapa, from the 1 Bluff. Belmont has. been scratched} for.^th> Melbourne Cup Eace. . ; .-.,•■» *■;>■,."[& ac ; The question of the annexation of New Guineaand tj-e Pacific islands-is receiv- | ing a-lafge.amo.uiit T 6fi\public<att r ention' ih; this city. An address to the Queen to- <"\^, re r T r "I r »r - ' day was passed' unanimously by both Houses of, rParlia'i.ent. supporting r the proposed annexaiion by the Imperial Gzvernment, or by the establishment of a Protectorate, andr-announcmg| that' the ,C?olony of Victoria was willing to pay a share of the "expenVe^^hereb'y incurred. The, Mayor, of Melbpurner.has.;calledj^ ■public meeting with the YJew ( pf; obtaining from, the citizens an expression of opinion mi support of the .proposal.?''' ' : / U .. I #I)xi, // i, BBISBA?fKi/JulyJ;llK >.. jln the Legislative Assembly last night Sir Thomas. Mcllwraith;ii the aPremier^ announced that the Minister had recom :> mended ithe; Acting«G6vern6r) ■ to dissolve Parliament;{ r an(i s His Excellency yhad, •granted a dissolution.'"" '"''^'' J ''' " "*.'
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 14, 12 July 1883, Page 2
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