AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(electric telegraph. — copyright.) (reuter's telegrams.) - Sydney, Monday. Arrived, this morning— -Te Anau, from New Zealand. Captain Strachan, the leader of the Age New Guinea expedition, who left Sydney in August last on a commercial expedition to the Myacussa /River District of New Guinea, reports that the expedition has proved a. complete success, and that he has been able to establish friendly "relationsTwith no less than fourteen Native tribes. In consequence of' the -.wharf laborers' strike the' steamers Nemesis arid Taramung have beeri laid up for the present. The shipowners have resolved to notify shippers that cargo must be in the ship's slings. It is intended to introduce laborers from New Zealand and South Australia, offering them lengthened contracts and paying their passages to Vic-< toria.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1601, 6 January 1886, Page 2
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127AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1601, 6 January 1886, Page 2
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