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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 179, 29 January 1895, Page 2

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A BANKS PROFITS. JAPANESE ENTERPRISE. MELBOURNE GAS COMPANY. THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE. FATAL AFFRAY WITH CHINAMEN. THE TIMBER INDUSTRY. (Per Press Association.) Sydnky, January 28. The report of the Australian Joint Stock Bank shows a profit for the half- * year of .£21,900 and recommends a dividend of 4 per cent, carrying forward .£I4OO. The reserve has been increased by £1500. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a powerful Japanese steamship company, intend, after the war, to run a fast line of steamers to Australia, doing the trip in sixteen days. The company -will also utilise their surplus steamers to convey coal to India and other Eastern ports with a : view to ultimately securing control of the whole trade. One hundred and twenty live cattle i have been shipped to London by the • Gulf of Bothnia. i A party of Chinese, keeping up their ; New Year at Hillston, were attacked by t larrikins. They offered a desperate resistance, and in the fight that followed ! two Chinamen were killed and two ■ dangerously wounded. This Day. The Hon. Mr Young is re -organising Public Works with a view of dispensing with unnecessary officials and several highly-paid officers are affected. Adelaide, January 28. At a meeting of representatives of the leading political and commercial associations a Federation League for South i Australia was inaugurated on similar i lines to those of New South Wales and , Victoria. Melbourne, January 28. At a meeting of the Metropolitan Gas Company, it was stated that the twenty minutes lost each night by the adoption of the Standard Time Bill means a loss to the city of X' 10,300 per annum. Mr Campbell has written to the Agricultural Department saying that i he is hopeful of establishing a trade in red gum for street pavement. The timber should be shipped in planks, not i blocks. _^_________