AUSTRALIAN.
(Klectilc Telograph-Copyrlght-Uniteil rres9 Association.) SYDNEY. J.w. 5. The Mayor of Liimbtoii, near Newcastle, has notified the public that the municipality will bo in darkness after Sunday, owing to financial difficulties. (Received Jan 6, 0.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 6. A conference of the Builders' Association at the Trades Hall arranged for an increase . of carpenters' and bricklayers' wages from 8s to 9s, ami bricklayer^ laborers' 6s to 7s per day. ADELAIDE, Jan. 6. Tho Advertiser estimates the wheat yield at 10,800.000 bushels, an average of six bushels. It expects at least 200,000 tons to be available for export. (Received Jan. 6, 9.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, Jax 6. The tick continues to spread, and has been discovered in previously clean areas. The Courier sounds a warning that the whole of Queensland will eventually be doomed. It is only possible to delay its march, and it will be as much as possible to prevent it spreading lo the other colonies. Nice rains have fallen generally, exceptng in the south and south-western bolder.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8408, 6 January 1899, Page 3
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