AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 131, 2 December 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

-«. (Per Press Association.) Brisbane, Nov. 30. The Courier, commenting on the alieg ation? made recently that pressure was brought to bear on members to vote for a Bill, says Government has promised to appoint a select committee of enquiry into them. Sydney, December 1. A daring robbery was committed on Saturday night. A cab drove ud to the shop of Mr Kerr, Jeweller. The occupant walked up to the shop and snatched a case containing £200 worth of Masonic and other medals hanging at the door. The thief got clear away, nnd the empty case was subsequently found in the suburbs. The silver market continues very active, and prices are firm. Block H sold at 48 higher thau on Friday, and all round there is a considerable rise Melbourne, Dec. 1. Arrived — Mararoa, from tho Bluff. This Day. Arrangements have beeu completed with the Gulf line steamers for direct monthly carriage of frozen produce to Manchester. The Liverpool and Glasgow contract does not come into opera- J tion till May, if sufficient freight offers ] it is probable one or two steamers will , be despatched. The Presbyterian Board of Missions has decided to withdraw the subsidy hitherto paid to tho New Hebrides Steamship Company on the expiry of the present year's contract, and intends to inaugurate a service of its own when the new mission steamer Dayspring, now on her way out, arrives.