INTERCOLONIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 9772, 31 July 1895, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

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ADELAIDE, Jut.y 31

The Cloncurry encountered gales on her last trip to Albany, and ninety fat cattle, 100 sheep, and nineteen horses, part, of a shipment for Perth, were washed overboard.

During the past half year the colony’s export of cereals, chiefly wheat, decreased by 1,970,000 bushels as compared with last year, and the Hour export increased by 900 tons. New Zealand took 08,000 bushels of wheat and 240 ions of flour, this being a large increase. The total export of flour was 2,900,000 bushels, and of flour 28,500 tons, of the aggregate value of £460,000, being a decrease of £'253,000 as compared with 1894.

SYDNEY, July 31

The ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ referring to the remarks of the English Press adverse to increasing the number of labor members in the colonial parliaments, says : “ Alarmists abroad and timid persons nearer homo greatly exaggerate the possible harm of the new political elements. The experience of the Australasian colonies in regard to parliamentary labor representation is greater than that of any other part of the world, and it is distinctly not such as to cause a scare. New Zealand gives a most completely favorable illustration of how the labor vote may affect national affairs. No impartial observer need fear that the people are going to lose their heads and elect destroying revolutionaries.”

Referring to the rejection of the Lottery Bill, the 1 Telegraph ’ says : —“ The sharp rejection of such a proposal emanating from the representatives of wealth makes the labor members appear as faithful guardians of consistent legislation and public morality, whatever be their delusions ami mistakes in other matters.”

At a meeting of representatives of farm and dairy produce companies on the South Coast it was decided to amalgamate and establish a central depot. It was stated that the output of butter from New South Wales is 20,000,0001b yearly. Anxiety is felt concerning the barques Adelaide and Excelsior, which are overdue from New Zealand, but as the weather has moderated and the wind is favorable they may soon bo reported. Prospects at the Broken Hill mine arc much more hopeful. Very little smoke is to be seen, and the pumping in of water is stopped, except where the fire is at its worst. A notice has been posted stating that work will bo resumed in the adjoining blocks and by the ore-treating plants. MELBOURNE, July 31. Signor Paladini, the well-known tenor singer, is dead. The Victoria Insurance Company have declared a dividend of 2s Cd per share, and carry forward £II,OOO.