AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(From the Argus.) The Government of New South Wales has made some important revisions in the rates and classification of traffic on all the railways in that colony. For the conveyance of agricultural produce the rates will be now Ipl per ton per mile, as against 3d per ton per mile in this colony ; and for mineral produce lid, as against 4d here ; while the general goods rate is a penny per ton lower than that paid on the Government lines in Victoria. There was another successful trial of meats preserved by the Victorian Meat-preserving Company yesterday, at Scott’s Hotel. A joint of beef, a joint of mutton, and a piece of ordinary ship’s beef, which has made the voyage to England and back, were submitted to the examination of a number of gentlemen, who pronounced the preserved meat excellent, the mutton being especially commended, and very superior in flavor to the salted beef.
A country paper inserts the following advertisement, which “ it has every reason to believe to be genuine —“ Wanted, a Husband.—A squatter’s widow, of considerable fortune, is desirous of again entering into the bonds of matrimony. Not being avaricious, 1 do not so much require money as a gentleman, who will take the management of my extensive station. "My height is sft 7in, dark eyes and fair hair, age twenty-live ; and 1 have only one child, a boy two years of age.” The Pleasant Creel: News contends that many of those tropical products which we have hitherto associated with “the East,” as from England, can be produced in the Wiiumera district in the greatest luxuriance. Even the cotton plant and the sugar-cane, it asserts, “ have thriven promisingly in some parts of this highly favored district; and therefore it is that we express surprise to find our farmers still ploughing and sowing for the inevitable and evcr ! astmg crop of wheat or oats. Until the Wimmera district grows its oil and wine, its tobacco and spices, even to the exclusion of its wheat and corn, we will not consider that the abilities of the country are being taxed to the best advantage, ”4
“ Desultory experiments in the preservation of meat are being made by a number of the residents throughout tbe district, writes the Pleasant Creek News. “ The experimentalisers try to improve on those details which they see from time to time described in the Melbourne papers ; and we hear that some have succeeded so well that they will show samples at the Wimraera District Pastoral and Agricultural Society’s show. One of the most sanguine of the meat preservers states the secret of his success is to dip the joint for a few minutes into boiling water. This he considers is sufficient to prevent the action of the air, and will act as efficiently (as a portion of the process) as some of the more complicated and less easily obtained agents which are now used.” “On the 14th April of this year,” observes the 8. A. Advertiser, “another, and very probably the last, Leichardt Search Expedition started from Perth. It is to be hoped that now the painful mystery respecting tbe fate of the brave explorer will be at last cleared up, and there really appears to be more ground for hope in this than in any former expedition. The party now on their way to attempt the solution of the problem is of picked men, specially adapted by experience in bush life and knowledge of native habits and character, for the laudable work they are upon. It will be commanded by Mr John Eorrest, of the Survey Department, with Mr George Monger and Mr Hammersley, squatters, as second and third in command. Besides these, there will be a farrier, blacksmith, and two aborigines—one of them the black who gave the information which led to the expedition.”
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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1915, 25 June 1869, Page 3
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641AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1915, 25 June 1869, Page 3
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