AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 304, 3 May 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

«i NEW AUSTRALIA. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. THE IJARRAB* MTJKDER. DEFRAUDING A BANK. (VEV. PUESS ASSOCIATION;. Sydney, This Day The New Anstralia authorities here ridicule the report from Argentine that Lave has been deposed from the leadership of the settlement. They explain that some three weeks ago Lane cabled asking whether he should declare a new constitution, and the trustees here answered in the affirmative, consequently Lane resigned after the declaration, anil the colony is now being governed by a Provisional Committee until the election of new officers. Owing to the depressed condition of the railway revenue the Commissioners have decided to return to the Treasury a tithe of their salaries, thus placing themselves on the same footing as their employees in regard to retrenchment. A representative of the firm of Fisher and Sous, of London, says he thinks New South Wales mutton will be able to compete successfully against the second quality of New Zealand mutton, but it remains to bo seen whether it will do so against the first quality. The homes ridden by ihe Barrabamur dmers have been fully identified. One of them was given to Cummins to train as a racer. Melbourne, This Day. At a meeting of the National Bank of Australasia, the Chairman said that in spite of undeserved misfortune which had fallen upon the shareholders, A' 175,000 in calls out of £187,0C0 due had already been paid. The expenses in connection with the reconstruction of the institution amounted to .£23,000, which was almost provided for. The meeting declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on the preference shares, and 4 per cent, on the ordinary capital. Three men, named Black, Thomson, and Smith, have been convicted of defrauding the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank out of several thousand pounds by means of false hire system of agreements and fictitious promissory notes. Black got four years and the others three years. Hobabt. This Day. Mr W, Moore, Chief Seerefcarj% is critically ill,