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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 237, 12 February 1894, Page 2

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i [Pku Press Association.] Sydney, February 10 I A meeting of Pastoraliats appointed a . committee to draft a scheme tor a cotn- ■ pan;? with the object of advancing the meat export trades and opening fresh markets. The Metropolitan Colliery Southern • district has conceded a penny per ton, ; which is likely to be satisfactory to the I miners who are considering the offer. A meeting under the auspices of the > Trades Council, to consider the uni employed question, carried a motion 5 urging Government to issue a quarter of r a million negotiable treasury notes, of i which thirty-five thousand should be - expended in extending Village Settlei ruents, and the remainder on reproduc- , tive works. I February 11. There is a great glut in the wheat I market both iv Victoria and New South - Wales, and farmers are holding stocks, declining to Hell at the ruling low prices y Iv Victoria 1,015,000 bags of wheat are I lying at the various railway stations. ) In the municipal elections throughout 3 the colony, the returns so far show a del cided opposition to an increase of publi- ) cans' licenses. 1 This Day. I The Telegraph publishes an article i praising the taxation policy of New 3 Zealand. 3 Melboubke, February 11. i Mr Duncan Gillies, the new Agent- - General, has left for London. 3 This Day. A case of eggs, placed in the Govern--3 ment refrigerating chamber on January 1 Ist, have been found to be in excellent > condition. Iv some instances the shells 1 were cracked, which is believed to be 2 due to the temperature being somewhat i lower than necessary. The average I temperature was 26*72. * Bbisbanb, This Day. 4 It has transpired that the seaman ) Cheshire is not among the survivors of i the Kanahooka disaster. He is supposed J to have been washed overboard during - the scorm. 1 The British India Company's steamer Dorunda, which was on fire at sea, ar j rived at Java safely. A thousand bales j of wool and forty cases of 2>*eserved ) meats have been damaged, while the "> vessel herself has also suffered severe 1 damage. > Jackey, the Dora Dora black who so ) cleverly escaped from the custody of the ) police, has been re-captured. I Albany, This Day. i Arrived — Britannia, from London. 1 Passengers for New Zealand : Miss Allen, 1 Mesdames Hoskings and Ballance, Col. - Healiy, Dr Hoskings, Messrs Nimmo, 5 Ure, Gardiner, Legitimer, Mortimer and son, Shearer, Allen, and Lugnrg.