AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
♦ ■ — LPSR UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION, j Melboubne, January 5. The London correspondent of the Age had an interview with one of the largest Australian bank managers in the city, on the subject of Victorian finance. During the conyorsation reference was incidentally made to New Zealand, and the bank manager stated, that, as a general rule, everything connected with Australia was extremely sound, and the way in which New Zealand had pulled round, and the sacrifices the people had made to preserve the Colony 's credit, had done good to the whole of Australasia. Sydney, January 5. The damage caused by the fire on board the W. H. Lincoln is estimated at £15,000. The hull is insured in a New York office, but the amount of the policy is not known. Forty -five thousand feet of timber is destroyed, The cargo is insured for 12,000 dollars, The vessel is a complete wreck. The bush fires in tho Kiverina district have done over £50,000 worth of damage.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 81, 7 January 1892, Page 2
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