AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3511, 30 December 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pkk Electric Telkok a ph — Copfrmht.) (ReHTER's AORffOY.) (Eeceivod 1.30 p.m., Deo. 29th.) SYDNEY, D C. 29. Sir John R ibfrtson has issued a political mniifuslo m which he rofurs principally tv tho Lund Act of New Smith Wales and indicates nmandmonts that are considered <le<irat>le to introduce into the measure. Tliese alieratinns, Sir John R .bertson aiys, will lnryely assist the Gnnncial ari-aigeraeiita of the colony. It is alao the inloniiun <if Government to t«ke the earliest opportunity of proposing to Parliament other measures for meeting the deficiency m •ho revenue and placing the Hiances uf the country on a aound basis. [Rooeivod 2.30 p.m., Deo. 2Jth.l Albany, Dec. 29. The R.s. Valetta arrived last livht with the London mails to N.ivembor27th. LEeooived 1 a.m., Doe. 30;h.] Mklboubnb, Dbc. 29. Tho managor of the Natioaal Mortgage and As-enoy Companj of Nuw Zealand, Limited, reports on the local markets as follows : — Shipping wheat, rather weaker, 3s 101 to 3a lid ; uinlting barley, no improvement, 3s 0J to 3* 9d ; New Zealand feed oats are a shide firmer, 2s 9d to 2s lid ; New Zealand milling oats, m better demand, 3s to 3t Id ; New Zealand oats under bond, 2< 11 to 2s 3d. The Victorian general elections have been fixed for the 20th February.