AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9541, 7 November 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melbourne, November 7.

The revenue for the month is nearly £55,000 less than the amount received for the corresponding month last year. A French syndicate lias offered to contract for the construction of railways in Victoria, and for other public works to the extent of two or three millions, accepting Government debentures in payment. Sir Graham Berry has decided not to accept the offer, as it might irritate the British capitalists, and als« because it is undesirable to iucreaso the colony's interest account. Obituary : Sir James Mcßain. He had been ailing some time. Sydnky, November 7.

The Premier has received applications for £100,00 worth of new funded stock.

The Makin case promises to be one of the most sensational of baby-farming unearthed in the colony. Tho police have discovered the parents of one of the murdered children.

The Postmaster-General lias received a cable from the Postmaster-General of New Zealand agreeing to New South Wales' contribution to Iho San Francisco mail .service. Sir Kidd intends to shorily submit the mutter to Parliament, as the subsidy of £4000 is subject to Parliamentary ratification.

The lambing of the winter and autumn seasous show a general average of vvl per cent.

Giving to a falling oil in the revenue, the Railway Commissioners have placed all hands in the workshops on short time, in order to obviate dismissals.

Tho police ore excavating the premises previously occupied by the Makins. The ages of the children whose bodies have been discovered range from two weeks to six months. Brtisr.ANE, Übvomber 7. During a thunderstorm at Pettsworth two men were killed by lightning.

The Government propose to resume tlio system of nominated immigration.

Truth, November 7.

The Premier states that the Midland Kailway Co Lave asked for further extension of tiuio for construction of the linos, in order to raise funds, but the Gorernuieut declined to grant tlio re cjuust until the libellous statements mado

in London against the Govettirucnfc were withdrawn. The Company hold a guarantee from the Government I'.r interest on half a million, under which the Government held the land a^ security. At a meeting of the Executive it was subsequently decided to withdraw the guarantee of interest, and after selecting land which the, Government are entitled to uadcr the guarantee, to hand over six thousand acres per mile to tho Company.