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[BY TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.] [reutek's telegr vms.l (Received 2oth June, 2.40 p in.) Sydxey, June 25. Arrived, yesterday : Wai hoi a from New Zealand. Satisfactory progress being made with the Land Bill in the Legislative Assembly. Brisbane, June 23. Mr Wern lias been appointed tothe position of Agent General vice Mr Garrick who was appointed Agent-General in London.
I Received 2oth June, 25.1 p.m. It is expected that the resolution of the Sydney Convention which is now before Parliament will be passed by the Assembly without a division. The trial of the equity suit, Bell and Clarke, has been again adjourned. The despatch from the Earl of Derby, which has been presented to Parliament expresses regret at the delay in carrying out the resolutions of the Sydney Couference, 1 1 states it is feared that it will be impossible to introduce it in the Imperial Parliament during the present session. Bills necessary give effect to the resolutions.
' The Pall Mall Budget of April 25th states that about one hundred stoats and weasels, which have been caught with considerable difficulty in different parts of Lincolnshire by a man named Allbone, a vermin catcher, of Bngg, have been conveyed by him to London, en route for N>w Zealand. They have been purchased by the Government of that country for the purpose of destroying the rabbits which overrun the colony. One thousand five hundred live pigeons have been shipped for the consumption of the animals during the voyage. According to a correspondent of the, Standard, there are 3000 sailors unemployed in the town of Shields, in the North of England. The picture given of the poor fellows is sad enough. Almost more sad is it to hear that among this mass of hungry idlers a furious agitation against the shipowners has been set on foot. It is not overinsurance, or the non-application of the Employers' Liability Act, that causes the present suffering of the Shields seamen ; but simply the fact that trade is just now too slack to allow ownere to send their ships — whole or rotten — to
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1868, 26 June 1884, Page 3
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