AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright iPBB UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION .[ Stdxby, October 31 At tbe half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales, held to-day, a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent- per annum was declared, and also a bmms of 2£ per cent. The sura of £10,0^0 was added to ihe reserve fund and £8000 carried to the profit and loss accent. Mr Egeson, of the weather Department has been dismissed from the service, owing to insubordination io. persisting in his prognostications in regard to the state ot the weather. He still holds that a three ye»rs' drought is looming in the npar future. Received November 1, 10.40 a.m. Melbourne, This Day. The Ministry has resigned, and Mr Munro, leader of the Opposition, has been summoned to form a new Government. Thirty-six members who voted with the late Government have resolved to form a united Opposition party under the leadership of Gillies and Deakin. Some uneasiness is felt for the safety of a steamer which left Japan for Melbourne shortly after the Alberta, with a cargo of coal. She is now a week over- " due.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 58, 1 November 1890, Page 2
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189AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 58, 1 November 1890, Page 2
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