AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
Adelaide, Juno 2. ' The revenue for the year exceeded the previous year by £Bi,ooo, and was £58,000 above the Trensurer's estimate. Melbourne, July '2. v The Government statistician has prepared a report showing the Australasian loans amount to a totnl of £207,000,000. He.urges tho Government to take concerted action to secure general uniformity in future loans. He claims that one great Australasian stock could be created without Federation, and could readily be taken over at any time without conversion by a Federal Government, a plan which would sveare large reductions in the present heavy charges. '
Sydney, July 2.
A meeting of shipowners at Newcastle resolved to maintain a position of neutrality in connection with tho strike. ,
Hobart, July 2.
Tho Premier, replying to a request from the Premier of New Zealand, asking for the removal of restrictions upon importations from Now Zealnnd, says that, seeing how little disposition the New Zealand Government has' shown to relieve Tasraanian fruit from heavy restrictions, there is no reason why Tasmania should exercise any special indulgence.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10656, 3 July 1896, Page 2
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174AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10656, 3 July 1896, Page 2
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