AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10212, 18 January 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Adelaide, January 18. Lord Kintore, who left on Wednesday for London, received a most cordial send off. Melbourne, January 17. Mr Wilson, the dairy expert, says he tried shipping butter similiar to Sowell's procas3 ten years ilgo. The objection was that the brine had a tendency to draw the sap from the wood which caused the butter to bo tainted unless the casks had beeu nell saturated some weeks beforehand with brine and the sap well exhausted before the butter was put in. Thi3 entailed an expense, moreo?er there was a risk of the hoops coming off tho casks or becoming loose and allowing the brine to escape in which case the butter was no doubt spoiled. The small shipment via Cape did not afford a fair trial. Ho would like to see thu experiment with several tons by way of the JWed Sea, and while the Agricultural Department would not adopt Sewcll's process it was willing to render every assistance to any intending shippers who might. The Premier hopes to prorogue Parliament at the end of the week, to enable him to attend tho Conference of Premiers and meeting of Federal Council. A w deputation of the Chamber of Commerce waited on the PostmasterGeneral and said the Chamber was unanimous in favor of a Pacific cable being laid at an early date. The} pointed out the present route had failed thirty-six times in eighteen years. The President thought the Eastern Extension Company would be glad to con tinue without any guarantee. Mr Duffy, Postmaster-General, agreed it would be a goood thing to have a telegraph line mainly through British possessions, and great advantage in time of war. It was understood tho cable would cost £1.800,000, and in the present condition of tlSags Victoria was not in a position to go in for it. Ho was afraid the cable would not pay at the start, though ultimately it would. All the countries directly benefited by the Pacific scheme should be called on to pay th«ir share of the undertaking. The balance-sheet of the Commercial Bank sho^s a net profit for the half year equal to about one and a quarter pet cent per annum on preference shares. Payment of deposit receipts falling due chiefly in 1898, to the extent of nearly half a million, has been nnticipated. A man travelling under the alias of Count Volasco has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences by issuing a valueless cheque. Sydney, January 18. Tho Minister of Pnhlic Works states that between £300,000 and £400,000 will be spent on roads in the colony within the next three months. Speaking at an np country Agricultural Show, the Premier said the Agent-General's Office in London mii3t be made more useful to the people. There must be a marked change in the sphere of tho Agcnt-Genernl's operations, which should ba less diplomatic, and display more commercial activity. The Government is sending an expert irrigationist to plot out four hundred acres in the vicinity of the artesian bore, in twenty acre farms. The Government will also establish an experimental farm, to illustrate the be3t methods of irrigation. Sailed (yesterday) : Monowai and Tasmania, for Auckland. The shift of men in the Seaham mine declined to work yesterday, and joined the other strikers. It is! believed the Unionists have rejected the Delegate Council's resolution, that each lodge will settle its own difficulty. During tho debate on the question, the miners' officers were accused of betraying the miners in their recent action, also of gross bungling in the management of the affairs of the Miners' Association. Thofletton miners are alsocoDdomned for their hasty action in accepting the terms of the management. It is understood that within tho next few days two companies, each working nndor tho same conditions as tho llettou colliery, will give notico of their intention to roduco the prico for hewing to a similar level as now paid in the Hetton mine. Thursday Island, January 18. A number of natives belonging to British New Guinea have buen sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging up to ten years, for murdering sixteen natives who took refuge near tho river duriDg the gale.