AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

SENSATIONAL DIVORCE CASE. THE VICTORIAN CHEAP MONEY SCHEME. (peb prkss association:.) Meluousne, This Day. Mr H. H. Hayter, Government statist has estimated the population of Victoria at the end of the year at 1,174,000, ami that of Now South Wales at 1,223,000. Mr Alison Smith has issued a writ for libel against the Age. The amount of damages claimed is not yet stated. A somewhat sensational divorce suit was dismissed yesterday, owing to the collusion of the husband with the peti tiouer. A document was handed in showing the petitioner gave the corespondent a receipt for 4:1500 as compensation for loss of his wife, home, and two children. Snell, the Adelaide cyclist, rode from Adelaide to Melbourne in 8 days 5 hours and 42 minutes thus lowering the records 18 hours 184 minutes. Arrangements for lighting the city proper with electricity have been completed, and it is expected the new system will be brought into operation early next month. The Chairman of the Tariff Board will probably recommend Parliament to amend the tariff in the direction of simplification and relief where it is considered the duties press unduly. In pursuance of the policy of granting facilities for obtaining cheap money, the Treasury has informed the Savings Bank Commissioners that it concurs in small loans being advanced at 5 per cent. Sydney, This Paj The Stockton miners have decided to accept tho hewing rate of as 2d on the basis of a selling price of 8s per ton, provided all the men employed in the mine before the strike are reinstated. The steumer Fiado had a narrow escape of foundering at on© of the wharves today. The ss. Adalaide while coming alongside drove her anchor into the Fiado below the water- line. The vessel began to fill, but fortunately the orchor entered the ballast tank, and this saved tho ship. Adelaide. This Day A joint cpnimissiou of the Methodist I body, by :19 votes to 4, carried a motion I favoring" the early organic union uf the Methodist chinches in the colony.