AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 82, 3 October 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. STATE BANK FOR ADELAIDE. (Per Press Association.) Melbourne, Oct. 2. The Railway Commissioners have in formed the Minister that according to the last tenders, the preferential use of local coal involves a loss of some thousands annually, and they can only continue to use it if Government grants a subsidy to the extent or the loss. The Minister is determined not to go outside Victoria while the local mines c?tn Bupply the demand, and will consider tho possibility of giving a subsidy. In connection with the proposed Antarctic expedition and the question of the Australian Governments contributing to the cost, the Premier says ho is unfavorable to an expenditure at present, but if other colonies decide to subscribe, Victoria will not stand out. Earl Shaftsbury and the members of Lord Brassey's staff have arrived. Adelaide This Day. In the Legislative Assembly the N.Z. treaty was further debated, and adjourned. The Savings Bank clause in the gtate Advances Bill was struck out. The Premier, referring to tins defeat, said the Government" wanted to establish a State Bank, to carry out the State Advances Stdney, Oct. 3. Wheat — Chick, nominally 3s 6d ; milling, 3s 6d. Flour, roller brands, £8 5s to £8 10s ; oats prime feeding, 2s 6d ; maize, prime, 3s 6d ; barley, 2s 3d; bran, lOd ; pollard, B£d. Peas— Prussian blue, nominally 4s. Potatoes —Circular Heads, £2 15s. Onions, L 3 10s. ButterDairy, lOd to lid ; factory, 13 to Is Id. Cheese, brisk demand, 6d to 6£d '. bacon 5d to 6d. Napier, October 2. Frederick Anner and George Castle have been committed for trial on a charge of forgiDg a cheque for LBO on the Bank of New Zealand Acting upon a hint" given by a recent case in the Palmerston North district, the Levels County Council will make a claim under the Public Works Act, 1894, against, the user of a traction engine for about L3O for repairing a piece of road. Wanganui, Oct. 2. Seaton has been acquitted of the charge of sheep-stealing.