AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 149, 23 December 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association). Melbourne, This Day. The Premiers of Victoria and Western Australia favour Hobart as the place to hold a convention on tho reciprocity question. The Premier of South Australia favours New Zealand. Sailed— Talune, for the Bluff. Sydnky, Dec. 22. The Legislative Executive lias ap pointed the Public Works Committee as a Royal Commission to enquire into the expediency of extending the railwa}' to i Circular quay and the proposed resumption of the wharves in connection there I with. This Day. The Land Appeal Court; has upheld the decision of the Laud Board in the \ Mercadool case. The Government has offered a reward for the discovery of Lesagh's remains. The Local Option League has decided to send a letter of congratulation to the N.Z. Alliance on the advance tbe cause made at the last election. Brisbank, This Day. It is understood that the Koyal Bank is prepared immediately after the close of the year to pay a second instalment of deterred deposits due in July provided the holders are willing to forego the six months notice to which they are entitled. It this course is pursued British depositors are willing to accept largely reduced interest on the balance. When the next payment is made the bank will have repaid fifty per cent of the deferred deposits. The steamer Merrie England has arrived atCooktown, bringing a number of miners who are suffering from fever and dysentery, also Magistrate Kowall who was frightfully mangled through the explosion of dynamite while fishing.