Australian Items.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XVI, Issue 1639, 30 March 1895, Page 3

Australian Items.

Mr J. Inglie regards tbe floating of | the Sydney Harbour Coal Company as a great success. : We have protected cane sugar so that sugar is worse and deare- m bydney than elsewhere, and still it cannot stand against imported beet sugar. — Worker, Politics m West Australian are work ing up for a ct f >rm. Last year the population of Now South Wales increased by 58,000 persons, Choise Australian factory butter is selling m London at Is per lb. In three years tbe population oF Melbourne and surburbs has decreased by nearly 52.000. ; . A Coastal Village Settlement for 40 or 50 persons is to be established at fit Geoge's Basin, South Australia has published a proclamation prohibiting import of fruit tree* by anybody except the Curator of the Botanical Gardens, The Age says the trouble with the shearers l«st yeir cost the equatters £20,000. The Salvation Army m Australia tiado £3000 profit oat of their three newspapers last year. Tenders hate been called for rai'vvay from Perth to Coolgardie. Victorians still unable to make their revenue equal their expenditure, Co-operative village settlements in^ Queensland said to be m a bad state.