AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SILVER COINAGE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, January 3. Owing to the shortage of silver coins and the inability to obtain a supply from Englancl, the Commonwealth. ha 3 obtained dies and permission to mint its own coins. , EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. SYDNEY, January 3. The seismograph at the River View College records the most violent earth-, quake shock for >years past. The ecntre of the disturbance is believed to be south of New Britain. STATE FISH SCHEME. . SYDNEY, January 3. The Hon. J. Black is establishing a fish-pressing scheme, with depots at several places on the coast, at a total estimated oast of £130,000. Until the .'new Government. trawlers aro finished- ; tho depots will depend . upon local ( fishermen for a supply of fish.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15478, 4 January 1916, Page 10
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