AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 204, 23 December 1896, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GENERAL ITEMS. (P«r Pre« A** l »' i" f <"ft —">l'iflht). Sykxev, This clay. The Land Appeal Court has upheld tbe decision of the Land Board in the Memuloo! case. Th t ■ b WJtrcl for -I I..■.""•rlv'f'i • remain. Th I,•>.•«! c ; - : • dead' •! ». - -vn-? ; "■ ** "i «**•!. iion t'-' cL"" \<. the advance of the cause m:i<ie at last election. Melbourne, This day. bailed —lalunt, for Bluff. A contest has l>een arranged between the cyclists Martin and Ken Lewis on similar terms to the match between Parson and Martin which was was won by the latter. The Premiers of Victoria and Western Australia favor Hobart as the place to hold the conference on the reciprocity question. The Premier of South Australia favors New Zealand. Brisbane, This day. It is understood that the Royal Bank is prepared immediately after the close of the year to pay a second instalment of the deferred deposits due in July, provided holders are willing to forego six months notice to which they are entitled. If this course i< pursued tbe British depositors are willing to accept largely reduced interest on the balance. When the next payment is made the Bank will have repaid fifty per cent of the deferred deposits. The steamer Merry England has arrived at Cooktown. bringing a number of miners who are suffering from fever and dysentery ; also MagisKowall, who was frightfully mangled through an explosion of dynamite while fishing.