AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PEK UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. | Melboubne, December 10. Mr Shiels' statement of the railway estimates says the department fails to mpet the reasonable requirements of the co ony. Last year closed with a deficit of L 221.000. There is no reasonable hope that the deficit will be less than L 300.000 this year. The strike made a difference of L 20.000. The country re* quires a more economical system framed au the American model. The Government have decided to appoint Mr Speight for a further term of seven, years at L.3,000 a year. December 10. The Argus condems the proposal ; to make New Zealand pay higher cable aies than the other colonies, and hopes the Post-master-General will not belittle Victoria by acquiescing in such a suggestion. This Day. An Italian hawker has been committed for trial for the Healesville murder. Sydney, This Day. A quantity of wreckage has been discovered in the Gilbert Group, a clump of islands lying under the Equator, which apparently belongs to a wooden vessel of * six or seven hundred tons. A number of kauri planks were washed ashore. [Auckland, This Day— The wreckage is supposed to belong to. tbe barque Notero, overdue here from Ho wland Isiand.J
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 75, 11 December 1890, Page 2
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