AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3057, 18 February 1892, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) Melbourne, February 16Hon J. G. Dam who has been approached in his capacity, as PostmasterGeneral with regard to laying a cable from Queensland to North America, said that while he would be glad to see an alternacable, the Government would not undertake any obligations. Mr Duffy suggests that the intercolonial Postal Conference should meet about March Ist. In order to relieve the unemployed the construction of two lines of railway, costing £176,000, is being started. Sydney. February 13.

Mr Dibbs has informed Sir Samuel Griffith thit he is favourably disposed to the scheme for a cable to California or Canada, and that the Government are prepared to offer a subsidy of £200 per annum. He asks Sir Samuel Griffith to express his views regarding the proposal. ~ The Sydney Morning Herald, in a eulogistic article, refers to New Zealand s abstention from debt and borrowing, and mentions the building up of a great meat industry. The article concludes :—' -New Zealand, in extricating herself from her embarrassment,has shown us all the way, and the only way, by which true prosperity can be regained." The second reading of the Electoral Bill, which provides for the one man one vote principle, was rejected by the Legislative Council by 26 to 21. Perth, February, 16. An extraordinarily rich find of gold is reported from Parker's Range. The stone is said to yield a thousand ounces to the ton. , __ Brisbane, February 17. Mr Andrew Johnson, one of the Railway Commissioners, has left for New Zealand to make enquiries into the method of the conveyance of frozen meat on the New Zealand Railways.