GABLE NEWS
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, March 24. Scotch depositors are becoming greatly alarmed at tbe repeated failures of financial institutions in Melbourne. Mr. Burt, M.P., one of the labor representatives, opposed tbe second reading oi the Miners Eight Hours Bill: He expressed himself averse to legislation on tbe subject. Australia was the only country in wbicb tbe eight hours system was successful, and that waa the result of mutual agreement between employers and employed, In America the law was a dead letter. Mr. Chamberlain supported, and tbe Bight Hon. W. H. Matthews opposed tbe bill, whioh was rejected by a majority of 112. SYDNEY, March 25. Advices from Tonga announce that portions of tbe missing schooner Avea, which lefc Samoa for Gunnos on July 25th, have been found. MELBOURNE, Maroh 25. Tbe Metropolitan Board of Works loan, of half a million, was subscribed -locally more tban twice over. The whole of tbe tenders were above par. NEWCASTLE, Maroh 25. A coal trust propose to build large cargo, steamers and keep coal constantly pouring into snob markets as 'Frisoo, San Diego, "Valparaiso, Hongkong, Calcutta, and Ceylon. BRISBANE, Maroh 26. Several cases of cannibalism have been reported among the blacks in the Cairns district, about 900 miles north-west of bere. Five boys were recently killed and eaten,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3084, 26 March 1892, Page 2
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