AUSTRALIAN.
Sydney, July 24. A deputation of the Chamber of Commerce presented a petition with 1000 signatures, in fiivor of n San Fnmciseo forty-days' service, at a cost of £68,000, instead of a forty-five days' service at £48,000. In answer, Mr Parkes stated that the Government favored the best San Francisco service, buf. did not urcti ipala that the ! cost, after deducing postage made, would be more ihan £20,000. New Zealand had been offered the conveyance of mails to Fiji, at a cost of sixpence a letter. New Zealand had provided a branch service thence. Melbourne, July 24. Mr, Higginbol-ham notifies n motion to add to the Electoral Bill a clause giving the franchise to adult females. Adelaide, July 24. Stone fron the Northern Territory has given twenty to Gfty ounces to th<* ton.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 184, 1 August 1873, Page 2
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