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♦ [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BARON MACLAY WITH REGARD TO NEW GUINEA. CALCUTTA. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR TORONTO. TWENTY PASSENGERS KILLED, AND OTHERS WOUNDED. (Received January 4, 1.10 a.m.) London, January 2. The Homeward Australian mails via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 22nd ult., were delivered to-day. January 3. Baron Mac Lay, the New Guinea explorer, has addressed a letter to Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, urging that the British Government, if it should decide to annex New Guinea, to respect the rights of Natives, and expressing tears that attempts will be made to kidnap them for the labor trade. Calcutta, January 2. Up to the present time the International Exhibition has been visited by 237,500 persons. The jurors commence allocation of the awards on January 15. Ottawa, January 2. A serious disaster occurred on the raillway near Toronto. The workmen’s train collided, shortly after leaving the city with a goods train, and twenty passengers were killed, thirty others being seriously injured.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2294, 4 January 1884, Page 2
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