AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 307, 31 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] BUILDING IN SYDNEY

SYDNEY, Dec. 31

The year has been one of pheno-; menal activity in the building trade ;> £3,626,000 has been expended in :the Metropolitan area on buildings and worksQUARANTINED. NEWCASTLE, Dec. 31. ; The steamer Elisa, from Shanghai,. has been quarantined. Tfc is supposed. tliat there is a case df smallpox! aboard. ; KILLED BY A fTRAIN. ; MELBOURNE, Dec. $1/ A train to Geelong at a level cross?; ing. ran down a trap, killing William} Palmer and his 'daughter, and itijur-'----,ing three others of Palmer's children/ QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. BRISBANE, Dec. 31. .- The elections have lieen fixed forj February st/h. BURIED 'NEATH i WALL. MELBOURNE, Dec. 31. I The body of >a man -named Lane has been found in the ruins of Wallach's premises, . which were > .-.'burned on December Ist. It is supposed that' the man was buried whem the wall collapsed on Boxing Day. ;

A VICTORIAN LOAN. ! MELBOURNE, Dec 31. j Ini connection with the 4 per cent loan, falling due at.London in April,' the State Government will . borrowlj'. millions from the Savings Bank Commissioners , for conversion, purposes, and revenue and?loan redemption funds will T)e used; to pay off the remaining £500,000. ■ . THE NEW TARIFF. MELBOURNE, Dec. 31/ An official analysis of the preferences tinder the new tariff shows that the items, upon- which the United Itingdom saves less than 15 per.cent of the total duty decreased from 64 to 37; those where savings are over 15 per cent increased from 187 to 224; the preference items of 25 per cent increased from 134 to 161, and those giving a saving of 33 per cent increased by 16.