Late Australian News.
(Evening Post.) The amount of dividends paid by the Tasmanian mining companies daring the first seven months of the year was £83,520, an increase of £20,520 over the corresponding period of last year. It is the intention of the Minister for Labor, New South Wales, to convert the Pitt Town Settlement into a casual labor farm.
A father, who with his son, was committed for trial at Broken Hill recently on a charge of robbery, stated that he had to steal to keep his children in food. The works at Newcastle for treating sulphide ores are to be completed by the end of the year, and will, it is stated, give employment to 5000 men. Cornelius Patton, the Victorian farmer who claimed £2OO damages because of his wife's refusal to share home, was last week non-suited at Melbourne. The Colonial Sugar Company's mill at Broadwater, N.S.W., established a record last Friday week by turning out 1298 sacks of sugar, equal to about 129 tana. A number of drapers were fined'at the Central Court, New South Wales, last week, for exhibiting articles of drapery in front of their shops and overhanging the footpath. It is intended to make arrangements to enable a student from the Agricultural College, New South Wales, each year to attend a similar institutiou outside of AqsM&i
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Hastings Standard, Issue 103, 25 August 1896, Page 2
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222Late Australian News. Hastings Standard, Issue 103, 25 August 1896, Page 2
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