AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(BY KLECTKIO TKLBOKAI'II. — CorYKTGHT.) Sydnky, June Victoria is making strenuous efforts to get the routo of thu auxiliary squadron altered from Torres Strait to King George's Sound, ao that the vessels may make Melbourne the first port of call, instead of Sydney as at present intended. The Victorian Government have made overtures to the New Zealand and J asmatiian Governments, asking them to use their influence in the same direction. The Intercolonial Conference, which was convened to enquire into the ravages of rust in wheat, has commenced its sittings. Melkouunk, Snnc 3. ' Returns for the past month show that under the new cable rates the receipts are sixteen per cent, below the monthly average under the old tar ill, while the number of words transmitted has increased eighty per cent.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2947, 4 June 1891, Page 3
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132AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2947, 4 June 1891, Page 3
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