AUSTRALIAN.
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copybight. ) (Per Press association.) (Received 12,5 p.m., Feb. 11th.) FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Sydney, Feb. 11. The Government is idvestigating the financial soundness of the Friendly Societies, many of which are discovered to be virtually insolvent. Registration will be refused to new societies whose rate of subscription does not warrant the benefits promised. The Government will shortly legislate on the matter. BUSH FIRE. Melbourne, Feb. 11. The chief sufferers by the disastrous bush and erasa fires that have been raging this week are struggling orchadista, who have lost the savings of a lifetime. It is a gloomy outlook for the farmers, whose winter feed has been destroyed. (Received 12.15 p.m , Feb. 10th.) THE MARAROA. Sailed—Yesterday Mararoa for the Bluff, via Hobart. MISSING VESSEL.
The Treasurer baa communicated with the New Zealand Government, requesting that a Union Company’s steamer call at Lord Howe and Seal Islands, to ascertain whether any trace of the missing vessel, May Newton, is there.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7066, 11 February 1893, Page 3
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159AUSTRALIAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 7066, 11 February 1893, Page 3
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