AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7788, 27 November 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Pr ss ABBoolatlon— Eleotrie Telegraph— Oopjrlght SYDNEY, Nov. 26. After serving ten years imprisonment the Mount Rennie prisoners Newman, Miller, Donvellan, Heagan and Hill have been released. Mr N. Lockyer, Receiver of the Treasury Department, succeeds Mr Powell as Collector of Customs. MELBOURNE, Nov. 26. The Bakers' Association has reduced the price of flour ten shillings per ton. Nov. 27.— The great heat which haß been experienced throughout the colony during the past five days has given way to a general rainfall. During a thunderstorm the Wesleyan parsouage was struck by lightning and considetably damaged, while the inmates had a narrow escape. At Kana^in a farmer named Footo was gettiDg through a wire fence, and as he grasped the wire he was struck dead by lightning. BRISBANE, Nov. 26. Another case of small-pox has developed on board the s.s. Duke of Devonshire. The patient is a Chinese. The Bank Bill is a short measure of six clauses drawn on the .lines of the Commissioners' scheme. It provides that the final repayment of the money owing to the Government under the original agreement may be deferred not later than 1931, that the rate of interest shall be not less than 2J per cent,, that in the event of a new company being formed to acquire the bank's business the Colonial Treasurer may accept ' the liability of such company in satisfaction of claims and demands against the Queensland National Bank.