AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1604, 9 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH. — COPTBIGHT.) (REUTERS' TELKGRAMS.) „. Sydney, Thursday. The negotiations for -a reduction m the cable rates between Australia : and New Zealand are still proceeding. The Postmaster-General of New South Wales stipulates for a considerable lowering of the tariff m consideration of the continuance by! the t Colony ;of the, sabsidy. for*; ''further period of five or ten years. It is announced that, subject to the concurrence o^ the Colonial representatives at the Berin Telegraph* Conference, 'arid of the Goyerninentqf New Zealand airangeinents have been concluded foV a' rate of 6d .per; wo/d, present minimum of fcen'woitfs foeing abolished. -The Australian and New Zealand Press not considering the! reduction sufficient, are witholding any stipulation as to a guarantee of increased traffic.; ; v ■■";... ■ -„,'.'■■ : Melbourne, Friday. The 'ar^angemehts conclude! : by ythe^ shipowners m view of the laborers' stride jare jprpying satisfactory, and no difficulty is m di'sc'liargingibr -loading cargo' at the Melbourne wharves. The drought which lias been prevalent m Australia for some time is now broken up, and good rains have been experienced 'throughout the Colonies during the last twenty-four hours.' < ■ '.'■. ■'.;.•' ;." The jßingarooma arrived this,morning from the Bluff. _ . , ■. , . •_ • Adelaide, Thursday. ,. Arrived, this evening — Orient Company 'si' Garonne- with Lbndon mails to jiitil December. • • •, ..