AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5905, 29 March 1894, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(per united press association. ) Received March 29, at 0.40 a.m.! Sydney, March 28. Queensland's second innings closed for 246 Freeman 65 and Ramsay 27. New South Wales made the 199 required to win for the loss of eight wickets—Callaway 60, Donnan 47, and Garrett (not out) 35. When the Appropriation Bill came before the Assembly MrJjYVise moved _an amendment to suspend the standing orders in order simply to allow the passing of the Monthly Supply Bill. The Government, accepted this as a want of confidence motion, and the debate is now proceeding on those lines. Arrived—Orlando, from Wellington. Melbourne, March 28. From April Ist the Government will reduce the interest on deposit in the Savings Bank to 3 per cent, This step is taken in consequence of the falling revenue. The Treasurer estimates the total debit balance at the end of the year at L 400,000. The Argus, commenting on the opening of Maori lands, suggests that as a matter of sentiment it might be well for Wellington legislators to wait until Rewi and the last of the chiefs who fought so gallantly for the right of the Maoris to hold the Maori land till they depart from the scene, which they are now fast leaving.