AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

FLOODS m QUEENSLAND,

I Received Iα a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. ifce heavy rains continue, and the Goods are causing much damage along ' apted m several districts. IRRIGATION IN VICTORIAI Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. ine Irrigation Conference resolved that private enterprise could with proper safeguards carry out the water conservation if the State could not find the money. IRRIGATION CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, January 17. The Irrigation Conference has adopted a resolution urging the Goovernment to carry out a comprehensive scheme of water conservation and irrigation, and advising that immediate steps be taken to protect State rights over the Murray and its tributaries. COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY. SYDNEY', January 17. The half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney waa held to-day. A dividend of 10 per* cent. was declared; £15,000 is to be added to reserve; and £21,000 is to be carried forward. The chairman, referring to |he decrease in the note circulation, said it was due to shrinkage in trade, and diminished expenditure on wages, also to the fact that gold ia gradually displacing notes in all the States of the Commonwealth. THE NEWCASTLE STRIKE. SYDNEY, January 17. The Attorney-General has submitted a proposal to the representatives of the mine owners and the employees, and has ■urged them, in the public interest, to secure a resumption of work to-morrow. conditional on the Arbitration Court sitting at Newcastle immediately to inquire into the dispute. The hearing of the summonses against the wheelera has been postnoned until ThnrsHav