NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9993, 21 January 1895, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, Satnrday. The Daily Telegraph, which has advooated the zone system- on railways for many years, regards the lntrodnotlon of the zone system in New Zealand for the carriage of frnit as a sadden transition altogether on too comprehensive a scale. Ib would ha7e preferred to nee the experiment tried on some scale of graduation. The innovation, however, will be watched with interest. Greener's, a firm of gun manufacturers in England, have issued a writ against a local firm of gnnmakers olaimlng £10,000 damages for alleged illegal oae of their name. ' ' The steamer Victoria bad a trying time during the Fiji hurricane, A report) from Santo, New Hebrides, Btates that on the 9th inst. the wind blew with harrisane force, and did a good deal of damage to the property there. The annual conference of the Seamen's Union of Australasia bepios on Monday. Among the questions to be discussed are the International federation of unions, the establishment of head-quarters of the Intercolonial Federated Union In Sydney, the Inducement of the shipping companies to adopt a uniform rate of pay for seamen, and eqnip their vessels better In the interest? of the crew.

The lemon growers or Italy ate becoming formidable rivals to the local growers. Bobween tbe seasons two or thtee hundred oases are received from Italy every third week, realising 22s 6d to 25s per case. Even at the most unfavorable part of the season the price rarely descends below 18a, which Is a considerable advance on the price for Sydney lemons. The directors of the Australian Joint Stock Bank have decided to prepay' one half the aniorihb due to the depositors in 1897, provided the pay men o of the other half is postponed till 1902, the extended amount .to bear the same rate of Interest as at present. ' Mr Cnoaok Smith, British Consul at Bamoa, has arrived here on his way to England. According to the Samoan papers it la an open secret that Mr Smith Is nnlikely to re,tnrn. The two girls Conelly and Moran have confessed that they concoobed their stories abont the wholesale child mnrder in order to obtain their release from the Parramatta Industrial School, of which they were Inmates.