AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, December 12. In the Legislative Assembly a Bill was read a first time, which provided for the issue of Treasury Bills to cover the colonv'B accumulated deficiency debt up to the end of last June of £1, 750,000The Treasurer said in all probability the Bills would lie in the treasury safes as an enomious sum of trust money was available. He intended to keep on paying off £150,000 yearly till the deficiency was wiped out. In the Legislative Council the Federal Enabling Bill has been read a third time. Tbe Legal Aru&lgamation Bid, designed to place barristers and solicitors on the same status, was rejected on the motion for its second rending. This Day. A return presented to Parliament shows the revenue from all sources during the past eleven months was .£8,608,000. The decrease, compared with the corresponding period of last year, is £54,000. The miners at the Burwood colliery, Newcastle, have struck without the usual 14 days notice. The matter in dispute is what is technically known as '• lifting bottoms." Melbourne, December 12. Signor Deal- Brewer, a well-known artist obtained a verdict of £500 against the Freehold Investment and Banking Company for injuries to his wife caused by a defective lift at the defendants' buildings.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 141, 13 December 1895, Page 2
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