AUSTRALIAN CABLE.
Sydney, February 19. The official record of the rainfall last year is the smallest on record, being 43 per cent below the average. It will take the squatters two years to recover their losses. It is staled that over a hundred members of the new Parliament are pledged to extension of local option, while fiftyfive are absolutely against compensation being granted to publicans deprived of licenses, Parliament will meet on the 27th inst. for the purpose of swearing in the members, but the formal opening by the Governor will not take place till the following day. Recent arrivals from the Island report that a severe hurricane has visited the Loyalty group, during which the schooner Aurora, which foi* many years has traded in and out of Wellington, was wrecked at Mare. A large quantity of wreckage, believed to belong to the Edith May, a large Sydney schooner, was also washed up on the beach. Adelaide, February 18. Government have decided not to be officially represented at the New Zealand Exhibition at Dunedin,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1856, 21 February 1889, Page 1
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174AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1856, 21 February 1889, Page 1
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