AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 284, 5 June 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

FUTURE BAN KING LEGISLATION. LIBEL ACTION— CLAIM JE15.000. Per Press Association). Sydney. Juuc 4. The Executive has approved the granting of permission to Close, upon whom the Court Martial was recently held, to retire from the service, retaining his rank of captain. A conference of bankers from New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland is discussing the future banking legislation and the establisnment of a system of inter colonial reserve. Business in silver shares continues very active, but the prices to-day were slightly weaker, except in Centrals which are a shilling higher. Melbourne, June 4. Allison Smith, late locomotive superintendent of Victoria, has begun an action against the Age, claiming £15,000 for libel alleged to be contained in a series of articles dealing with the railways of the colony. This Day. Mr Allison Smith is conducting his own case against the Age. The Presbytery of North Melbourne has approved of the acceptance of the Rev. Mr Hewittson's call to the Knox Church in Dunedin. The members of the Presbytery highly eulogise Mr Hewittson's worth.