AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
i (Per Press Association.) Sydney, March 22. Arrangements are completed for holding a conference of the Chambers of Commerce of Australia and New Zealand at Sydney on May 18th to discuss important inter-colcnial mercantile questions. A miner named Williams unearthed a 470z nugget close to an old shaft near Braidwood. Lieut. Moir, of H.M.S. Ringdove, was acquitted by the court-martial appointed to hear certain charges against him of having appropriated the funds of the canteen and the mess. This Day. A cyclone swept the Norfolk Island at the end of last month. It destroyed the Post Office and several other buildings. At the Cascades a terrific eea did great damage to the landing place. Melbourne, This Day. The Defence Department has Drermred
a statement showing the annual conributions of the various colonies for the maintenance of the Auxiliary Squadron due in ApriJ. New Zealand's contribution is L 2.080. The owner of the schooner Gratitude, from Invercargill, has been fined and the captain £5, for landing a cargo of penguin oil, wrongfully described as whale oil.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 222, 23 March 1897, Page 2
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