AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12583, 21 January 1905, Page 3

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Unite" Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE BUSH FIRES. SYDNEY, January 20. The Lord Mayor's Relief Committee report that there arc. no applications from sufferers by- the bush fires wanting immediate .relief. THE IRRIGATION CONFERENCE. The irrigation conference has ended. It was resolved that the report of the interState Commission, which provided" for the apportionment of the Murray waters among the three interested .States', be regarded as

file niaximunv'concessioiis New South Wales, should make. It was affirmed that. all. waters where practicable should be used in. production instead of maintaining spasA sensation was caused in the city by a -telegram from the Governor's secretary asking that two detectives be sent to Mossvale where Admiral Rawson is staying, to meet the Melbourne express. Owing to the many rumours a big force of police met the train at Redfera. It transpired that several thousand Treasury bills had been! forwarded for" Admiral Rawson's signature ana that the detectives were wanted to~ a<coompany the messenger, in bringing them bacs to t0WI1: V THE CITY BANK, The City Bank has declared a dividend for the' half year at the rate of 2£ per cent., added £IOOO to the reserve, and earned £I3OO forward. The chairman, ring to the reduction of dividend, said that although general business "was satisfactory and well maintained, affairs -of State, political and commercial, were unsettled, (giving.. little opportunity for enterprise or /the extension of business. THE PLAGUE. Another rat, affected by plague, has bfeen • found on the North Coast Company's wharf.

Received 12.57 a.m., January 21st. . . THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. MELBOURNE, January 20. The Federal Parliament stands further adjourned to February 25th.