AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
A GRUESOME STORY. Reoived February 7, 10.25 a.m. PERTH, February 7. A half caste aboriginal brings a gruesome story from the iNorthern goldfields. He says tho blacks there are starving and resorting to cannibalism, eating children. The man has come down to ask the Government to do something for the blacks, amongst whom disease is rampant. NAVIGATION COMMISSION. SYDNEY, February 7. The report of the Navigation Commission is likely to be rea.Jy for presentation to the Governor-General next week. It is understood that by a majority of one the Commission has affirmed the principle of preference to British seamen and tho carriage of British goods in British vessels.
CABLE NEWS.
Uy Telegraph—Press! Association— I Copyiight,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7958, 8 February 1906, Page 5
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