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Show Colonial Notes. I San Francisco, 11. News from the colonies per steamer Australia is very meagro. Keporls from a party o' gold seekers who went to Now Guenea are not favorable. The streams are very high and many of the adventurers adven-turers sick. Miners are very reticent as lo the prospeots of tbe gold fields. Fighting between, the French and natives is still going on in New Caledonia. An expedition on a large scale, against rebels, is now projecled. The total number of victims to the recent outbreak, aa far as knowD, is 118. In Fiji shocking excesses on tbe part the natives and provincial governors areroported. If, is expected that tbe system of administration wilt soon be modified. |