AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 52, 29 August 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) Sydney, August 28. Arrived — Maori, from Lyttelton. Sailed — Taluue, for Welliugton. Melbourne, August 28. Tbe French warship, Admiral Perseval bas arrived. Sbe replaces tbe Scorff in Pacific waters. This Day. Good mm has fallen throughout the colony, and greatly improved the prospect of the wheat and other crops. Tho Supremo Court has granted an application fixing tho dutns of the return summonses for tho unpaid call of 2l»^ por share in tlie City of Melbourne Bank. The liipiidatcrs stated ilir debt a nno by ihi* I'.ank amount to L2,75G,000, and the assets, apart from money due by contributories, do not exceed L 1,2-15.000., 2-15. 000. The total uncalled capital is L2<! 5,700, oi which they did not expect to get more thnn LSO.OOO. Tho officer despatched to Monte Video has fully identified Geakc the defaulting DayU-ford solicitor. A commission appointed to enquire into tho position oi local LcdioK who obtained Qovommerjfc Joans to oon^ti'ivl water aud irrigation works, fiud tinwater trusts aud particularly the i rri gation trusts have proved failures and that tho Government sanctioned the irrigation works without any regard whatever to tlie question whether the schemes likel}' to prove payable. Money was prodigally thrust upon the trusts and expended without auy regard to lcpayment of the total. The expendi ture out of loan money on irrigation has been one million six hundred aud thirtysix thousand, on whicb the State pays over -£'65,000 interest annually receiving in return only 4*57 000. Bhisbank, This Day. Mr Gilruth is paying a short visit to Queensland inspecting the meat works and acquainting himself witb tho character of the tick pest, in tbo interests of the New Zealand Government. llobaht, This Day. Horsely was found guilt}' of manslaughter of his wife wbo was found in a water race witb her head battered in, and was sentenced to 5 years.