AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
' i ,v " Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright* GREAT SNOWSTORM. ; Sydney, August 3. A further fall of snow lias occurred in the south-west. The township of Kiandra is 5 half buried. Wo thing like such a heavy fall has occurred during the past twenty years. BANK RATE OF INTEREST. Melbourne, August 3. ■ The banks have agreed ,to reduce :tht deposit rates to 3J -per cent, for twelve months, and 2 per cent, for six months. THE MELBOURNE POISONING CASE. Melbourne, August 3. Mrs. Needle has been committed for trial . t on a charge of poisoning. ' INTERCOLONIAL FREE TRADE. : • Sydney, August 3 The Premier has received a teleg'from ' the Premier of South Australia in* viting his attention to' Intercolonial free trade, Mr. Reid has replied that it is the. earnest desire of the Government to pro* mote commercial relations with the othei., % colonies. Mr. Kingston sends a representative to Sydney shortly to discuss the question with Mr. Reid, and expresses the opinion that there will be a speedy develop, ment, THE SHEARERS' DISSUTE. .••V-V..-'-./ Sydney, August 3.'. s ' Shearing difficulties are cropping up in. [ many districts, but nothing so fsr Of a wrl-; . us or decisive character
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9581, 4 August 1894, Page 5
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