AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 84, 3 October 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

ALLEGED BOBBERY OP DEBENTURES. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION). Melbourne, Uotober 1. A warrant has been ipsued for tbe arrest of a man named Bur ford, an officer of tbe Bank of New South Wales for the larceny of L7OO worth of debentures The theft was only discovered through obtaining leaye of absence on the ground of ill health. It is supposed that Burford has gone to San Francisco and sold tbe debentures bef< re his departure. Melbourne, This Dnj. The Government propose to spend half a million yearly on railway construction, The conference of Municipal Delegates agreed to adopt a minimum rate of wages from 5s 6d to 12s per day according to thd nature of the employment. All Ministers with the exception of .Mr J. A Isaacs, Attorney-General, have been elected unopposed Arrived Indramaye, from London. Sydney, This Da?. The schooner Isabella, bound from Townsville to Dunedin, put in here through stress of weather. In the Legislative Assembly, a motion for leave to introduce a Bill to abolish payment of members was rejected, after a lengthy debate, by 66 to 31. The revenue for the quarter has decreased by £111,000, as compared with the same quarter last year. Kerr has broken the mile cycling record, riding the distance in 2min. 18 l-ssec. Several slight collisions occurred at the Greta mine between the Unionists and non-unionists.