AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
I THE MEAGHER-DEAN CASE. THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY. REDUCTION IN BUTTER FREIGHTS. (Per Press Association). Sydney, This Day. Sailed — Morayshire for Port Chalmers. The Grown does not intend to take further action in the Meagher-Dean case. It is understood the additional vote for the Australian squadron is intended to be utilised in manning and making ready for action the gunboats Boomerang and Mildura, which at present are in the reserve. Melbourne, This Day. The scarcity consequent on the shortage of coal is subsiding. Importers have reduced the best Newcastle 2s per ton and inferior Newcastle and Southern coal Bs. The City of Melbourne Bank enquiry ha 3 concluded. Adelaide, This Day. The Minister of Agriculture has signed a coutractjwith the P. and^O. and Orient Companys under which they have agreed to reduce the butter freights from j^d to to yd per Ib.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 269, 19 May 1896, Page 2
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