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(Received, January 19,10.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 19. The Directors of the Australian Joint Stock Bank have decided to prepay one half the amount due to depositors, in 18D7, provided the payment of the other half is postponed till 1902, the extended amount to hear the samo rate of interest as at present. The Daily Telegraph, which has advocated the Zone system for many years, regards the introduction offiL the Zone systom in New Zealand, for the carriage of fruit, as a sudden transition of an altogether too comprehensive scale, The two girls Couolly and Moran have confessed they concocted their stories about the wholesale child murder, in order to obtain their r<w lease from an Industrial School, ■which they were inmates. Melbourne, January 19. Lord Brnssey, tho new Governor, is expected to arrive in tho Colony in September.
The Bank of Victoria has declared a dividend of five per cent for the half year,on annual preference shares, and 2j per cent, on ordinary shares, [ and has carried forward £7,000. The House meets especially on Monday, to deal with Railway rates, on ,i motion for their reduction by twenty per cent.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4930, 19 January 1895, Page 2
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193LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4930, 19 January 1895, Page 2
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