AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, April 26. A youth named Leahy was drowned in the floods in Gippsland. The preparations for the reception of the visiting troops were delayed by rain. The various States will pay the cost of transport through their own territory. Sir John Forrest states that the cost to Victoria over the military display will be between twenty and thirty thousaud pounds.
Mr Barton has received a reply’ to a message to Mr Chamberlain suggesting that a Commission be appointed to deal with the troubles over land matters in the New Hebrides. Mr Barton says the request is acknowledged in 'a gratifying spirit. The result of the correspondence will fp-obably .be the appointment of a Commission.
Amongst the Federal visitors on route from Fremantle by the Himalaya arc Lady Banfurly, Ladies E. and C. Knox, Major-General Sir E. Collen (representative of India), Mr Mulock (PostmasterGeneral of Canada), and their wives. Brisban'e, April 26. A man named Nelson cut his throat and then jumped over a cliff a hundred feet high. The Hon. George McLean, Chairman of the Union Steamship Company, was entertained by a number of prominent citizens aboard the Moana in honor of the taking over of the Vancouver service. Thursday Island, April 26. Arrived: The warship Phoebe, from England.
Perth, April 26. Blacks murdered a white mau and a black boy in the Liverpool ranges.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 92, 27 April 1901, Page 1
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