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* [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. —♦ DEPORTATION OP CRIMINALS TO THE PACIPIC ISLANDS. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT NEWCASTLE. (Received March 1° 0.50 p. in.) Melbourne, March IS. A number of Ministers of the Presbj’terian Church waited upon the Premier, Mr Gillies, to-day with reference to the probable annexation of New Hebrides by France, and the deportation of recidivistes to the Pacific Islands. Mr Gillies promised to urge upon the Imperial Government the desirability of Great Britain annexing New Hebrides, or to prevent France annexing the group. The Premier also informed the deputation that a telegram has been despatched to London inquiring-if there was any truth in the rumour that a thousand convicts were to be transported to New Caledonia this year.
Arrived, this morning, (he Union steamship Wairarapa, from the Bluff. Adelaide, March IS. The Oiient Company’s steamship Liguria, with Knglish mails to FehI'uary 12thj arrived this inyrniug.
(Received March 19, 1.15 p.m.) Sydney, March 19. Another fatal colliery accident is reported from Newcastle,”the workings in the Fermiale pit being flooded yesterday. One man is known to* be drowned, and another is missing. bailed, last night, (he Tarawera, for Auckland.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2929, 19 March 1886, Page 2
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