AUSTRALIA.
[Special to Press Association.] COLD IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, July 15, Intense cold is being experienced in many parts of the colony. The Nepean river has been frozen for a week, the ice being two and a half inches thick. TREATMENT OP SULPHIDES. Mr Potter, of Melbourne, has been experimenting with Broken Hill sulphides with the view of extracting the zinc and converting it into a marketable product. Ha has been so far successful that a plant capable of treating a hundred tone of crude material daily is being erected. DISBANDED. MELBOURNE, July 15. The Williamstown Garrison Artillery and Commissariat Corps have disbanded, refusing to accept retrenched pay, CHECKING AN EXODUS. With a view to check the exodus of farmers to New South Wales, the Minister of' Lands intends to introduce a Bill providing for the selection of mallee lands on easy terms. Over a million acres are available. SMALL-POX. ADELAIDE, July 15. The small-pox patients are progressing satisfactorily.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10706, 16 July 1895, Page 5
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