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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 3

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Special to "Star." INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE. JTHE TRIUMPH BREAKING UP. reuter's telegrams. Received December 11, 12.80 p.m. Sydney, This Day. Lord Roseberry was present last night at a dinner givon by the Speaker of the Legislative Asssemhly, and in replying to the tonst of his health, spoke highly of the importance which must be attached to the late Intercolonial Convention as marking a distinctive poch in tbe history of the Australian Colonies ; in its resolutions regarding the convict question, the convention Lord Roseberry remarked spoke with a power which could not be claimed by the Colonies individually, the convention spoke to the whole world as the mouthpiece of a United Nation, determined to take part in future events, and determined to rule the present as regards its individual self.

(PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. Tlie Triumph is now breaking up. The sea last night drjve her further on the rocks and was making clean breaches over her, while to-day it is found that the bottom is out of the forehold and the engine room, and No. 2 compartment is full of water. The foremast is sagging. Capts Worsp, Clayton and Fraser went down last night and made a surrey. They recommend that everything th.it can be got out of her, be taken out at once, and sold. This will be done. The official enquiry takes place on Thursday next. A steamer and barge has cone down with a winch, to remove the threshiag machines and other large packages of cargo for southern ports. Blenheim, This Day. The Supreme Court sitting opened this morning The only criminal case was the Crofton oil case. The grand jury found a true hill against two of the four defendants. The trial will proceed this afternoon. ___^___^^__