AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(Per Press Association.) M KLborRN'K. December 17. Mr Syme has been notified by Speight's solicitor thut the latter intends to move for leave to appeal to the Privy Council. The report of the Universal Building Society shows that during tic year the liabilities were reduced by _1f>,700. Properties to the value of _ 19 ,000 were thrown on the Society's hands owing to the great shrinkrges in value, the mortgagors hrviug given them up. Sydney, December 17. The Governor, in presenting the iMilitary prizes, paid a high tribute to MajorGeneral Hutton's work of military reorganisation. He said he saw no. reason why military federation should wait lor the larger federation. As to the larger federation it surprised him to find two provinces like New South Wales and Victoria, whose people are not only neighbors but brothers, separated by menacing tariffs and hostile railway gauges on political and arbitrary lines. Taking the official returns as a basis, The Sydney Morning Herald estimates that Australia will require to import about 8,650,000 bushels of wheat, New South Wales will require 4,000,000.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 145, 18 December 1895, Page 2
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