AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6380, 16 February 1892, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

fpBB PEKS3 ASSOCIATION— COPYKIGIIT.] SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ON NEW ZISALAN". THE NEW OABLK SCHEME. N.S.W. DIVORCE hXTENSION BTLL. ENGLISH CRICKETERS V. N.S.W. JUNIORS. (Received February 16, 11.30 a.m.) Sydnky, This day. Th° Sydney Morning Herald, in a eulogistic article, refers to Now Zealand s abstention from debt and borrowing, aud mentions the building up of the gwat meat industry. The article concludes :— 'Hib w Zealand, in extricating herself from her embarrassments,, h«s shown us all the way and the only way by which true prosperity can be regained." Mr Dibbs has informed Sir Samuel Griffith that he is favorably disposed to the scheme for a cable to California or Canada, and that his Government are prepared to offer a subsidy of £2000 per annum. He Hsked Sir Samuel Griffith to express his views regardiug the proposal. The Divorce Bxtecsion Rill has passed the Legislative Assembly by 38 to 18. AmatchbetweenLc.rdSherneld'steam.who played twelve men, and twenty-two juniors, was drawn. In the first innings the juniors made 318, the top scorers being Campbin 71 and Driver 71. Tho Englishmen put together 162 in the first inninge (Lohmann 43), and when the stumps were drawn had lost two wickets in the second innings for 33.

THB MELBOURNE UNEMPLOYED

VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERALSHIP.

THE NEW MINISTRY,

THE ELECTIONS

INCREASING THE TAXES,

THE PROPOSED NEW CABLE

RICH GOLD FIND

(Received February IG, noon.)

Mklboukne, This day.

lv order to relieve the unemployed, the construction of iwo lines of railway, costing £170,000, is being started At a crowded myelin-,- of citizen* it was resolved b< petition the Government against Mr Munro'a appointment to the AgentGeneralship. . A slight alteration has been made m the portfolios of tho Ministry. Mr IHivies becomes Postmaster-General, Mr 'rnttnm taking the portfolio of Minister of Defence, which he will hold in addition to that of Minister of Mines. Mr Wynne, whohitherto had not been included in the Cabinet, be-coinc-i Minis'tet of Ju.-tice, The general elections take place the second or third wo-k in April. Mr Shiels, Premier, proposes that taxation be increased in order to assist the financed of the colony. Mr Bhiels was iu:xious to t-emire the co-operation of Sir Graham Kerry and Sir B. O'Loghlen, bur the idea brought him into collision with his old colleagues. The dispute was followed by a reconciliation in the shape of thy present reconstruction.

The Hon. J. G. Dntfy, who was approached in his capacity aw PostmasterGenenil with regard to the laying of a cable f-oni Queensland to North Ameriei. .-aid that while he would bo glad to see an alternative cable, the Government would rut undertake any obligations. Mr Duft'y euggests that an Intercolonial Postal Conference should meet abuut March Ist. PtfKTH, This day.

An extraordinary rich find of gold is reported from Parker's range. The stone is said to yield Ihounands of ounces to tho ton.