AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

SIR M. O'ROUKE ON FEDERATION TIIE BORDER TARIFFS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION I . Adelaide, This Day. The Government has decided to pay no further bonus on exported butter. Sydney, This Day. The City Council rejected the Ratrenchment Committee's report recommending: a reduction of ten per cent, off all salaries over £150, and laborers wages to 6s 8d per day. Mr Larke, Canadian Commissioner, delivered an address during the week to Melbourne and Sydney commercial men, in each instance urging the claims of the J Pacific Cable, and resolutions recognising the necessity of the cable and calling upon the Governments to take steps to investigate the question were cirried. Mr Villiers, the war correspondent, was among the passengers by the Warrirnoo, from Vancouver to-day. He was met by a party of journalists and artists, and accorded a hearty welcome. Melbourne, This Day. Sir G. M. O'Rorke, speaking at a luncheon given by the Mayor, urged the desirability of Freetrade between the colonies, and hoped when federation came New Zealand would not be found stand ing out. The Cabinet declines to ratify the agreement come to by the Intercolonial Railway Conference with reference to the border trade, on the ground that it is altogether too one - sided. Mr Turner wired to Mr Kingston : " Cannot under- | stand why such secrecy was observed about the treaty." Unless urgent reasons are shown he will publish the text on Saturday.