AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.
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Pacific Islands Question. Received this day at 10 20 a.m. . . Syd’ney, This May.
The Federal Cabinet meets to-day; It is understood to discuss the Pacific Islands Question.
Intense Heat. Meduourne, This Day
The thermometer yesterday registered 109 in the shade. Showers at night cooled the atmosphere.
The Sugar Industry.
Brisbane, - This Day.
Philip, speaking at the Early Closing Association said, that the Sugar Industry is one of the most important to Queensland;
They should hesitate before they did anything to menanco the Industry. Time will come when they would require little or no colored labor ; meantime let them give the people engaged in the industry a fair show.
A Severe Cyclone.
Melbourne, February 8.
A dust storm of cyclone force swept the city last night. It lasted a few minutes, All traffic was stopped.- So fierce was the storm that it carried foot passengers off their feet, snapped telegraph poles, and unroofed a number of buildings. The Ameer’s Engineer.
Sir Salters PinO', chief engineer to the Ameer of Afghanistan, has arrived on a visit for the benefit of his health.
Disastrous Grass Fire. Adelaide, February 8.
Destructive bush fires at Mt. Pleasant did much damage to grass and hundreds of sheep were destroyed. The damage is estimated at ten thousand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 February 1901, Page 3
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219AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 February 1901, Page 3
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