AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 307, 7 May 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE GRETA COAL MINE TROUBLE DEFICIT IN RAILWAY REVENUE. VALUABLE PEARL DISCOVERY. (Per Press Association.) .-ypn'KY, This Day. Parlinment will probably be prorogued with tho view ol a dissolution before the end of the month Obituary — The Rev D'Arcy Irvine, formerly headmaster of the Napier Grammar School. It is feared the Miner's Association will not allow the Greta miners to accept the terms offered by the owners viz. 2s lld. Tho Australian Labor Federation scheme has been finally adopted. Under the new arrangemeufc the Trade Council ceases to exist from July lst. Mklbourne, This Day. It is estimated the railway revenue receipts for the year will show a deficit of £385,000 despite the reduction of the expenditure by £214,000. It is understood the Government programme for submission to Parliament next session will contain proposals to reduce the railway freight on Agricultural produce, also for the reduction of the prohibitive custom duty based on the report of the Tariff Commission and the abolition of the stock tax, except on cattle. Owing to the reduction in the orders for coal for use on the railways, 160 men in the Coal Creek mine will shortly be thrown out of employment. Hobabt. This Day Discovery has been made that certain shell fish in the Derwent are prolific in pearls. Fifteen hundred gems were gathered from this source by one person in three hours.