AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9336, 28 December 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(aieotrioToleeiAph -Copyright -United Prett Association.) (Received December 28, 9.33 a.m.) HOBART, Dec. 28. A conference of State Attorneys-Gen-eral meets on January 24 to discuss the desirability of permitting practitioners m one State to practice m all the other States. SYDNEY, Dec. 27. The following modus vivendi Ms been arranged between the Commonwealth and the mail companies p>nding tie- decision of the Privy Council m the Oceana case. The duty will not be enforced at each port, as it will be difficult to ascertain the amouut but as soon as possible the purser will make a statement of the stores consumed at each port, and while travailing between ports. They duty must be immediately paid, and payment must be absolute, leaving the companies no legal remedy. Every facility will be given, but the Commonwealth does not depart from its rights. English, French, and Germ;' i' companies have signed the agreement, -which is terminable at a month's I notice. The prosecutions which were fixed for Monday will, therefore, be suspeudrd during the currency of the agreement (Received Dec. 28, 10.9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 28. There has been a long spell of dry weather m the coastal districts, and much damage has been done to vegetables, which are selling at a high price. Recruits for the new contingent are" plentiful throughout the States.