LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MELBOURNE. March 5. The Sydney Council has passed the Deceased Wife's Sisters Bill with one amendment. The strike in the iron trade has ended. The men are allowed two meal hours, winter and summer. The gas men have struck for advance of wages. The ship Southern Belle, with immigrants from London, was dismasted off North Queensland. Assistance has been sent. COMMERCIAL. Wheat, much wanted, Gs 8d ; Prime samples, oats still rising 5s 2d, to 5s 4|d ; for fine feeding ; candles, speculation continued, largo sales at Is Id, Is 4d; Kerosene, Is 7|d, sugars, fair demand, full rates, nothing doing in liquids. SYDNEY. March 5. The Government intend to ask Parliament to vote the price of match rifles for Inter-colonial contest. ADELAIDE. Vignerons have asked the Chief Secretary to initiate legislation for luter-colonial free trade for Native products.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 4
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140LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 4
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