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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 19, 22 July 1895, Page 2

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DEATH OP A. SMALL-POX PATIENT.

BANKING RETURNS. TRADE WITH CHINA AND JAPAN. (per PRESS ASSOCIATION) Adelaide, This Day. Smith, the small-pox patient, is dead, and Miss Ramsny is in a critical condi tion. The disease is of a malignant type. Melbourne, July 20. The report of the Bank of Victoria shows the net protit for the half-year was £19,800. A dividend of 4 per cent, is recommended on preference but none on ordinary shares, £16,500 being carried forward. Mr Rockhead, Railway Commissioner in the course of a speech, said the cost of running three thousand miles of Victorian railways today was exactly the same as when two thousand miles were running. The revenue was about the same aud the deficit abont equalled the interest on cost of construction of this extra thousand miles. In tho libel action— Allison Smith v. the Age — a verdict was returned for the plaintiff for one farthing damages. The question of costs will be decided next week. Brisbane, July 21. In the Assembly, Mr Granger moved the second reading of the Public Houses Monopoly Prevention Bill, which enables publicans to buy beer and spirits where they please. It does not prohibit brewers and spirit merchants owning houses or lending on bills of sale. It provides a modification of the Gothenburg system enabling Government or the local authority or Company uuder rules approved by the Treasurer to purchase hotels at a valuation. Government has commissioned Mr Parsons to proceed to China and Japan to report on the condition of trade and commerce, the currency, the woollen trade, and the possibility of extending commercial relations, between those countries and Adelaide. He leaves next month, taking several trial shipments of goods with him. A large meeting of commercial men decided to wait on Government and express disapproval of the State Advances Bill.