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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 250, 27 February 1894, Page 2

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CARDINAL MORAN ON THE LAND LAWS. POOR LOOK-OUT FOR USURERS A CHAPTER OF DROWNING FATALITIES. FLOATING A BIG GOLDMINING COMPANY. (PER rIIF.SS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, February 26. The damage to the steamer Trado, which was run into one of the wharves by the s.s. Adelaide, is very slight. Cardinal Moran, iv the course of a spooch, said lie favored tho return to medieval laws, prohibiting man to hold more than three hundred acres of land, or receive more than five per cent interest on money lent. Eleven lives were lost at various parts of New South Wales yesterday by drowniug. Through the capsizing ofapuut at Nyngan four Chinamen were drowned, while two women were drowned at Fay in a similar manner. This Day. The Directors of tho Stockton mine havo declined the men's terms, and j employed other labour. They refuse to treat the miners as a body. Bbisuank, This Dat Heavy rains have now fallen in the drought-stricken districts. Three and a-half inches were registered at Charlevillo, where the want of rain was most severely felt. Houabt. Thin Dav Sir E. C. Braddou, ex-Agent-General, has been elected leader of the Opposition. Mr Bird has been nominated by the Opposition for the Speakership. Mklbou.ne, hVbru-iry 26 The Metropolitan Board of Works loan is unfavorably viewed in financial circles, and it is thought with money so plentiful in London the loan would be more easily floated on the English market. The shareholders in Bayley's Reward Claim at Coolgardio havo decided to wind up the affair and form a new company, under the Limited Liability Act, which can be placed on the Register of the London Stock Exchange. The capital of the new company will be .£480,000, and shares will l>o divided pro rata amongst the present shareholders.