Sir H. Parkes on Federation.
Sir Henry Parkes, m a letter to! the Nineteenth "OenturyV explains his plan for the fedeiation of the colonies and the appointment of a London Australian Council.
The Empress of Germany is improving m health.
Desertion of Gordon's Native Troops. The Standard publishes a redor't from Egypt to the effect that four divisions of Bedouins, numbering 500 soldiers, have deserted from the rafales t>f Gordon Pasha's garrison at Khartoum, and that his position is helpless. The same paper states that the Soudan is lost as far as Wadyholfa. ..;■,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 130, 1 May 1884, Page 2
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93Sir H. Parkes on Federation. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 130, 1 May 1884, Page 2
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