Creating a hot standby with Postgres 9.6
2016-12-22 07:24:30 UTC [10728-3] LOG:  consistent recovery state reached at 3/4D000130
2016-12-22 07:24:30 UTC [10728-4] LOG:  redo done at 3/4D000130
2016-12-22 07:24:30 UTC [10728-5] LOG:  MultiXact member wraparound ?protections are now enabled
2016-12-22 07:24:30 UTC [10732-1] LOG:  autovacuum launcher started
2016-12-22 07:24:30 UTC [10727-4] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections



Looks like your recovery.conf file has ignored.  Are you shure that the recovery.conf has the right permissions (basically owned by the user that run the service, usually postgres)?