AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
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(PBP. UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Received November 1, at 9.32 a.m. Sydney, November 1. At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Company a 10 per cent, dividend was declared and L 90,000 carried forward. The chairman stated that satisfactory arrangements had been made for the disposal of sugar not required in Australasia, it is expected that the surplns will be 15,000 tons. The company intend to make changes in the methods of work, which will cheapen and improve sugar. The building trades in Sydney are very active. A number of large buildings are beiog erected. Employees in the different branches are in good demand at increased wages. Brisbane, November 1. An influential meeting of citizens decided to erect a public memorial to Mr Byrnes. Received November 1, at 9.35 a.m. Sydney, November 1. Mr Telford manager of Collendina station, died of anthrax, contracted while skinning sheep. Melbourne, November 1. Myers has been sentenced to five years' for the manslaughter of the woman Roberts. Received November 1, at 0 40 p.m. Sydney, 1. Arrived—Alameda, from Auckland.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7355, 1 November 1898, Page 3
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