VICTORIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10093, 6 September 1895, Page 3

VICTORIA.

(Received September 5, 7.30 p.m.) Melbourne, Thursday. Louis and Emanuel Abrahams hay been sentenced to 20 months' imprison ment each and fined £250 each ia con' oectlon with the Greener gnn frauds. (Received September 5, 10.15 p.m.) ZJhe Abrahams are Id a state of collapse and\ had to be carried Into Court or. stretchers, being extremely weak anc exoited. Louis is In a critical condition, and apparently unconscious. The illness is the result of persistent refusal to take nourishment. (Received September 6, 12.45 a.m.) There has been heavy rain in Gippsland and several washouts on the Thorandale railway. Crops on the lowlands have been damaged. In tbe Assembly the Municipal Advances Bill went through committee without amendment. Mr HotsoD, interviewed regarding his visit to England to open direct) trade with Manchester, said the London middlemen have for years conducted a system of financing Australian importers of Man-. Chester goods, which will enable theo> to keep the control of that trade, nnt'.'i such time as similar terms can be (Vevised in Manchester. Reciprocity in th e way o| direct return cargoes, will Vnerefora V t first be precluded to „ combat] 6 extent, but there la a tea", feeling In favor of establ^ hlng J^fo a system. Manchester comr^ v £ f avota b4 London as a distributing centre, as it would serva {ron , sbc t0 * c , ht mUU wJJKJ?* 818 P PeopleL eople concurred as to tbe aplendid possibility of fostering a direct tta.de with Australia, especially In meat 808 WOQ>.,