AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
GENERAL ITEMS. Melbourne, This day. Lord Brassey, speaking at Horsham, referred to the recent petition drawn up by the Presbyterian Federal Assembly for presentation to the Queen protesting against the treatment of Armenians, and said that the tottering Turkish Dynasty could not much longer stand and would not stand even now but for the jealousies existing between the European Powers. He had formed a deliberate opinion that it was a matter of no concern to Great Britain what Power was master at Constantinople. Sydney, This day. The ketch Ettie was wrecked in Esperance Bay. Captain Osborne and Mate Bradly were drowned. The other two of the crew reached Black Island and lived for several days on crabs and weeds. They suffered greatly from cold. Bhisbane, This day. A warder from Noumea has identified eight out of the nine Frenchmen who recently landed at Townsville as escapees from New Caledonia.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 123, 17 September 1896, Page 3
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