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LONDON, June 7
Bruce, of New South Wales, finds little encouragement from Germany to push trade of Australian produce. Expected cab strike will continue some little lime yet. Men are offering, on an average, Ils 6d per dav, but owners insist on payment of 13s lOd, and there seems a very small prospect of compromise.
Letter from Newfoundland appears in the Times protesting against Governor’s action as unconstitutional in proroguing Parliament for a month, to enable remainder of bribery petitions to be disposed of. It is contended that no power exists to collect Customs revenue after 10th inst., and states Goodridge Cabinet now represents only 12 votes in the Legislative Assembly. NEW YORK, June 7
Strikers at McKee’s, Port Pittsburgh, have mounted 3 cannons on an eminence commanding a line of railway along which a train bringing marshalls and troops must p»?s.
Six thousand strikers are destroying property in vicinity of the town. BRISBANE, June 7
Agent General has been instructed to join in protest against Harcourt’s death duties proposals. ADELAIDE, June 7
Parliament opened today . Governor’s Speech announced that it was proposed to submit a scheme for immediate conversion of a portion of the public debt, and its more systematic payment. ’The village settlements in the Colony presented a hopeful overlook, and it was proposed to establish an irrigation settlement at Lake Bonney. Parliament would be asked to sanction issue of Treasury notes, and other measures affecting banking institutions would ba brought forward.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 745, 8 June 1894, Page 5
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