AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6871, 22 April 1897, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(P.y Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (PER UNITED PRESS 3 ASSOCIATION). Received April 22, at 10.13 a.m. Melbourne, April 22. It is expected that the jncome M will not exceed LI GO.OOO, being LSOOO less than last year, and L 20.000 below the estimThe Royal Bvnk has declared a dividend of three per cent and carried .forward Lll4B. Received April 22, at 10.20 a.m. Melbourne, April 22. At the Druids' bands contest the first three prizes were won by Sydney bands, viz., Railway Military 02 points, Newtown 88, Glebe 8«. Invercargill, ISew Zealand, were fourth with 84 points, and win a LlO priz-3. The judges were in an adjoining room and ignorant of the name of the band playing. The Minister of Agriculture intends to submit a resolution at the forthcoming conference of Ministers of Agriculture, proposing that the meat-exporting colonies should unite in subsidising a number ot leading butchers in and around London to sell Australian meat. Received April 22, at 10.30 a.m. Brisbane, April 22. Dengue fever is raging in Normanton. Nearly 3 the whole of the residents are suffering. The warders at the gaol succumbed, and with the consent of tne Minister the prisoners were released and the gaol converted into a temporary hospital. Received April 22, at 10.a.m. Sydney, April 22. The Protection Conference, at which Mr Lyne presided, adopted resolutions that, as history contains no record or a country permanently flourishing under a Freetrade tariff, it bo immediately _ augmented by alt the nc-'.eaaary Protectionist duties, and c mdeir-ung the removal of the sugar duties. " c Lyne told the delegation that he wouid, at the proper time, submit the policy to the country, but he was not going to be forced into an expression of opinion.