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Show Tim Australian Cuiuiuonwaalth, The Nation. The foundation of the commonwealth, common-wealth, if successfully carried out, as it doubtless will be, foreshadows before many years trouble for both Germany and Iratice in tho Southern Pacific. Tho shortcomings of tho mother country coun-try in that region w hich tlie colonies have most keenly felt have been her acquiescence in tho occupation of half the great island of New Guinea by Germany, and her acquiescence in the possession ot Mow Caledonia as a penal station by France. . - |