AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
I (Per Press Association.) Sydney, October 22. At (lie National Rifle Association's meeting, Lieut. Keivting, who attended the rillo meeting at. Oamaru, in March, won the Queen's championship for the fourth lime, his score on the present occasion is 870; McGregor and Parsons, the New Zealanders tcored 8-18 and 883 respectively. Each received a prize of L 5. There have been steady though limited transactions in investment stocks, but the fluctuations in value were immaterial. Mining and silver stocks were geuerally neglected, and prices maintain almost a dead level. There was a little better feeling at the close for gold, the Adelaide Exchange doing good busiuess iv Westralians. Qneeji.sl.iDd shares met with considerable attention, but New Zealand were untouched. Cooktown, Oct. 22. Advices from New Guinea state that Kir \Y. McGregor, lifter ascending Mount Scrntcliley, discovered a lar#e stretch of magnificent country in which are splendid takes. The natives proved to be friendly, and are described as the finest specimens of the native race in New Guinea.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 99, 23 October 1896, Page 2
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