AUSTRALIAN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN GABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Brisbane, August 1. Further heavy frosts are seriously damaging the sugar cane. The Hon. Mr Tozer speaking at Gympie, said the Minister of Lands would shortly introduce a scheme for settling the people on land. The best land in the Colony would be available and occupation allowed at the smallest possible prices. Government would do everything possible to assist agriculture, and he hoped before the end of the year to establish agricultural Colleges. Sydney, August 1. At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association the report claimed that SO members of the new Parliament supporting local option were in favor of the payment of compensation. The barquentine Adelaide has arrived safely from the Thames. She encountered tempestuous weather and a succession of heavy head gales all the way. Melbourne, August 2. Mr Alison Smith ia dissatisfied with i the result of his action against the Age, and has given notice to apply for a new trial. This Day. In the Assembly the Labor members raised the question of the new produce export contracts, and urged the Government not to entertain the tender of the P. and O. Company while they continued to employ cheap black labor. Farmers were opposed to having their produce carried by blacks to the exclusion of whites. The Premier promised to give the matter his careful consideration before the tenders were accepted. Thursday Island. August 2. The steamer Argus, which went aßhore on a reef near Somerset, has been floated off with only a little damage.