AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 28 October 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■ . - ...,...• By Telegraph.—frew AMorttafcioa.—Cbgyriglit* e, LORD Fti'Zt^iLLiAiili'fe EXPEDITION & ' (Tt*«ciTe'i October 28, 13.30 s.ia.J "±''' ; Sydkey, October <ft. - i- A private cablegram has bseri .received in; .... [,' Sydney, stating" that Lord Kteinliaia's * Pa'cifio exploring expedition goes to the) C Galapagoes group of islands oS! South' g America, not to cne Solomon Islands, t [It was stated that Lord Fitavilliom*s a party intended to look for coal hi tee Sold* t mob Islands.] ■/>■ r ■' r ; - .-. ....,, ■ ■ ■ I RAILWAY RATES IN i*EW SOUTH • WALES. • ; ,, ■; ',_;- . -'■■■■.% Stdnkt, OetoblS? 127.' " , The- Railway CJcibmSsaiiiners have) in* i formed a. deputation thai asked for cheap i country rate's that if the railways were to " be made fid pay it" was at once necessary to reduce wages and increase raters '• ,' ; ;- ! \ SYDNEY CLOTHING FACTORY. !• / Stdkst, Oetobei'27.; A report stales that the clothing factory shows a loss on the,year's:transactions if ;i £1795. \ FINANCE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Stiott, Octobers?, ... i: • In the Assembly, the Treasury* iilftAß3Kr*i!^ ■ passed through all its : ?« r i mier (Mr. Carruthere) expi'fcini"d''«ist-ii-^w'>.vX.' ■> required to enable the. Goy*rtt?:7>H ,H l J ™*',f"' ' pare for the i^nq^jjia^l'.a-iiHiiibaJ-p^lli^^^ . worth of bills, 'ad&ruL;- in. '"L'Miiz; '', y^ffflf • March, and anotka* io;.u" of &;,&^ '*< |i Sydney in 1903-6. : jln;.the;,pr^g^'y^BV:^ , of the money marlcj'.ifc i^{ : -dooß^p_ift|iair:;:^j: : n:i.: •, thei the loan ebnM_-b9:"rals*si : -';kS|||afeiga," i ously. Tho Agent-General '-hWfx&inuki-y:. :'.'; that, after consulting the London' aqicl We**' • t , minster Bank, it would be better ijjj koto .'.' ' '■ now bills, as the time was inoppO'ftifcw;i§s- '' \ ", ! ; a long-dated loan, It would also be.iiewi-"'* .'-' ' mry to pay higher interest on New' $do|li ;J > Wales loans ill the near future. Mr. Gar- •-?*' '■ ruthtefs:added it was not certain that ha "'. would not issue inscribed rtock, but, sup-.=- _ ■" ■ posing advices 'in January showed the mar- *]■ • ket still unfavourable, the Government wonKI-.' ' .'. be safeguarded if it Bad power to i«sttßbiil4' •■'■■'■; POLITICS IN TASMANIA ." Hobabi', October 27. : The deadlock in Parliament on th© Gorefiiment's taxation proposals has been settled by a compromise, the result of 4 free conference of the two Houses. A MISSING YACHT, Perth, OcLoi :x2( : .':.;. The yacht Thehna, with 0, crew vi ... - ■ men, is missing, tad it is believed lla !$# foundered. .... ICEBERGS. MELBouaire,- October 37;. A number of vessels report the prose&w <$ icebergs in the Southern Oiean. 'Tbe Moranan parsed two ve'.y large ones aaa a own*. ' ber of smaller oaes, *6GO Sflllii eonth-weflt of - Cape Leiguwifl. ' THE BARQUE ONYX. ■ ■■_.•■'.. a StDNEt, October 27. ; . , ,The barque Onyx has reimfiea her f ottge to M«lbouii;B. me Onyx was bound from Kaipara to Melbourne, uid being delayed hv bad '%s£s* ran short of Srovisieiis and but Into v.Sydhgy &a Gciefei* 88 for supplies.] THE FIRE ON THE PBRfiflßiarr. ' ■ Some of the Peregrine's #i»l*S **&» j buciled fey the fie&i The damaged ' "";' !id considerable, and is beiaT #iiiJ^,is * i a ■ f [The Peregrine, whilst on n WfUr the North from SfStY* was found to be on firs, *sJ put tetj to No. 8 held tanSg to v fi >od,d la extinguish tieoutbiM-.. 1