AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 794, 20 June 1893, Page 3

A USTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ (per press association.) Sydney, This day. The Governor has declined to receive an address from the Australian Socialists League unless certain statements describing the Government as an ' executive machine in the ' hands of monopolists, and existing only to advance their objects, are omitted. The certificate of the captain of the collier Tamar, which ran into a ferry steamer, has been buspended for a month. The ballot taken of seamen in the port resulted in a unanimous refusal to accept the reductions of wages. Melbourne, This day. The Court has sanctioned tho scheme for the reconstruction of the^ Colonial IBank of Australasia, subject to amendments. The Full Court dealt with, the appeal against the reconstruction of tho Commercial Bank of Australia, but with the exception of making corporations trusts leave a third of their deposits with the Bank for ten years, thus putting them on a similar footing with those compelled to take preferential shares, and making directors enforce calls they loft the scheme practically as sanctioned by the Chief Justice. The Grand Jury in tho case against Davis and Milledgo began its investigations to-day. A rich find of gold has boen made in the now (Jlotb. of Gold claim at Wood's Point, on the Goulbourne river. One man obtained 20 ounces of lumpy gold free from quartz in two hours. Adelaide, June 19. It is oxpoctod thai the recent flood will cost the Government £30,000 to repair roads and bridges. Brisbane, June 19. The Graziers Butchering Company has secured the contract for supplying the Australian squadron with tinned meats. ,