AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 August 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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Stock Returns. Sydney, This Day.

The annual stock returns shows the number of cattle in the State to be 1,821,000 or an increase of over 18,000. Sheep to be 40,020,000 or an inerease of 8,806,000 compared with the previous year. Clip is estimated at £234,257,000 or an increase of £49,548,000 over the previous year. Horses show a slight decrease. For China. The steamer Mary Park has sailed for Taku. She has about 11,000 bales of hay on board for the German Government in China, in addition .to a large consignment of oats shipped from New Zealand. Australian Tariff. Mblbotjbnk, August 28. The Federal Cabinec held along sitting dealing with tariff details. Sentenced to Death. Kockhahftok, Aug. 28.

A Portuguese named Eeuben was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing Bainny Hardwick, with whom he was living. New Zealand And the Pacific. Sydney, Aug. 28.

The Telegraph say= there was a suspicion that New Zealand's desire to obtain control of some islands, had at the back of it a movement to set up a second federation in the Pacific. It had been partially justified by- New Zealand announcement of special customs tariff {or the Cook group. It urges that here would be a vigilent aim by the Commonwealth to prevent any Federation between New Zealand and the Islands. M seems contemplated, especially in xegard to Fiji in which the Commonwealth as immediate trade interests. New Zealand's expansion in the manner threatened would be harmful not only to che Commonwealth, but to unite a second federation. The time may come when some Island communities may desire to be Vented to govern themselves in the widest Colonial sense, but it does not follow they are going to be annexed by Australia in pbia respect. Trade Restrictions.

1 Recoived this day at 10 30 am. i Sydney, Aug 28. i It transpires that when John Higginson, who is closely identified with a French possession in the Pacific, went to Franco some months ago, he was the bearer of an important letter from an infiowatial body of merchants interested in the French Govornment, the desirableness of modifying or removing the present trade restrictions hetween the Commonwealth and French possessions.