AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
(Per s.s. Waihora, at tho Bluff.)
(united press association.) Melbourne, D«c. 1. I By the new Loan Bill, which will be read a second time ai an early date, the Government ask Parliament to sanction a loan of £8,000,000. Of this £6,000,000 will be devoted to the construction ot railways, £\, 300,000 to irrigation, £500,000 to Melbourne water supply, and £200,000 for loans to shires, to enable them to construct tramways. The debentures will bear interest at not less than 4 per cent., and endure 45 years. When the new loan is floated, the Victorian public debt will have reached £30,760,000. j A meeting was held yesterday to express sympathy with Mr Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette. The meeting was attended by some clergymen and several members of the Salvation .Army. The [ chair was taken by the Postmaster General, the Hon. j. Campbell. Votes of sympathy with Mr Stead was passed. The speakers all referred to Mr Stead as a martyr m the cause of suffering hum anity. [ A letter has been received by the Department of Agriculture from Mr Corri-g-an, of Wliitemouth, Canada, who seeks information about land m this Colony and its land laws. He states that several persons with some capital intend to emigrate from that place to Victoria m January next. The second trial of Joseph Symes, Freethouglifc lecturer, was concluded at the Supreme Court yesterday, the defen. dant being ©barged with keeping a disorderly house under the Act of George the 111., winch provides that the occupier of any house, room, &c, which is used as a place of public amusement on Sunday for which money is charged, shall be deemed to keep a disorderly house. His defence was that the proceedings were not entertainments, but connected services of the Australian Secular Association. The jury were unable to agree, and after six houra, were discharged without giving a verdict. Tne defendant, who was allowed bail, has to appear on the 15th December on the same charge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1577, 9 December 1885, Page 2
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