AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 112, 6 November 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

TPKB PBKB.H ASSOCIATION). BiiisitANE. November 5. In connection with the English cable and hind grant railways, a member of the Ministry states that under recent land legislation the land grant system was rendered impracticable. Adelaide, This Day. The first innings of the Gawler team against tho English team closed for 153, and in the second essay they have lost five wickets for 22. Newcastle, This Diy. Tho Cardiff colliery is idle, owing to the men refusing a reduction in the hewing rates of 2s 8d to 2s 6d per ton. Melbouknk, This Day. A conference of pastoralists and agriculturalists has decided to form a frozen meat trust, and proposed to levy a rato to provide the interest of a loan of i' 145,000 necessary to carry out the works. It is intended to ask the Government to guarantee their debentures. The Hon. G. Turner (Premier), Hon. J. Isaacs (Attorney-General), Hon. J. M. Davis (M.L.C.), Sir J. B. Patterson, and Mr A. Dcakin have been appointed to represent the colony on the Federal Council. Ther Cabinet has decided to reduce the honorarium of members from .£270 to 1200, tho Speaker to £1000, Chairman of Committees to i."500, President Legislative Council to #750, and the Chairman of Committees in that branch of legislature to 4MOO. It is also intended to reduce the salaries of future judges by i'soo. Hollis and Co., gun-makers, of London, havo begun an action agaiust Abrahams and Co., dealers iv guns, claiming i'lo,ooo and an injunction to restrain them from selling alleged inferior guns with the namo of " Hollis " stamped thereon.