AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 237, 9 April 1897, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.! Peijth, April 7. In consequence of a discovery of rich alluvial gold and a reef in the vicinity, the management of the Block 45 mine, Hampton Plains near Kalgoorlie, is offering a reward of i.10,000 and a half interest to the finder of a payable reef on their property. It is stated thafc the Government will next session introduce a Tariff Amending Bill giving a free breakfast table, in eluding in the free list bacon, butter, cheese, bams, preserved meats aud eggs. Wheat will also be placed on the free list, bufc fche duty on fiour will nofc be remitted. Adelaide, April 8. The Constitutional aud Financial Committees have practically concluded their labors. Sydney, April 8. The Government ia despatching an oflicer of the Educational Department to Norfolk Island to investigate the educa* tional requirements of the Island which are alleged to De unsatisfactory. The Orotava, which went ashore on a shoal near Perim, at the entrance to the Red Sea, in March, was docked here. The damage was found to be very slight, only a few plates being buckled. This Day. Mr Wragge, Meteorologist to tbe Queensland Government, has arranged to establish a temporary observatory on Mount Kosciusko. He expects that this will add greatly to his success in weather forecasting. Hobart, This Day. Ifc is understood the Tasmanian Delegates at the Federal Conference favor New Zealand's application for a twenty years' lease of the Macquarrie Island provided Tasmanian rights are protected and the seal fisheries safe guarded. The matter has been referred to the Crown law officers.