AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] fRBUTEES* TEIIEGBAMB.J February 10, 1 p.m. . .. Cooktownj This Day, News has reached here tbat tjhe natives of Johanneb island have been punished for the murder of Captain Craig. A British warship shelled the villages and destroyed theni. Most of the inhabitants fled to the mountains. Melbourne, This Day. The horse Nelson arrived here to-day, per Wairarapa, 111 excellent condition. iSydney. February 9. News has been received from Noumea that seven French convicts' escaped in an open boa 1. H.M.S. Dart, which has arrived at Sydney, picked up three Frenchmen, who have been identified as escapees from New Caledonia. Thpy have been returned under the (Extradition Treaty with that colony. Brisbane, February 9.. The Queensland Meat Preserving Company have received further cargo orders of tinned beef, which are believed to be for the Continent.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 92, 10 February 1887, Page 2
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139AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 92, 10 February 1887, Page 2
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