AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 256, 2 May 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.. Sydney, May 1. A rich reef, it is reported, has been discovered near Gerraanton. It is estimated to yield 40 ounces to the ion. The reef is two feet wide. At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Company a dividend of ten per cent, was carried, and the sum of i:88,000 carried forward. The (profit amounted to £90,000. Perth, May 1. A digger named Anderson has been murdered by a black named Jimmy at Siberia. He had been living with the murderer's gin. Jimruy pot jealous and speared Anderson as he was entering his tent. He then looted the camp and cleared out. Hor.AKT, May 1. "Whitehouse, a steerage passenger bj' the l)oric for N.Z. died during the passage of phthisis. Adelaide, This Cay. The Government has notified that after this year it will not grant any public holidays for race meetings. iVlelbouiine. This Day. During the last three months S,OOO tons of wheat have arrived from Mallee c.juntry, which, up to two years ago, was declared to be uninhabitable. Parliament will be opened on the 29th. The Argus says the opinion is held in town that the resumption of borrowing, except for conversion purposes, is undesirable. The colony which abstaius from borrowing in the present highly favorable season will benefit most in the long run from an improvement in its credit.