AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13013, 28 June 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Uni|»r Press Association—Per Electric telegraph—Copyright. THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT. MELBOURNE, June 27. It is stated that one reason for the delay in the'new mail contract is that the London parties interested are disinclined to accept the condition giving the Comnionwealth power to take over the steamers at uny time at a'valuation fixed by arbitration. It appears that there are three parties in the new combination, a Sydney firm, a Melbourne firm, and one of the'biggest shipping firms in London. The "present capital of the combine is £i,0d0,000..' THE NEW HEBRIDES. Mr Deakin states that' a reply has been received in connection with the representations made in regard to the New Hebrides. It calls attention to the fact that recent representations made on behalf | of New* Zealand and "the Commonwealth , have not yet been received in Britain. It is that they have asked for certain alterations of the proposed agreement with France. That is correct, and it 13 suggested that it would an endeavour to give effect to the alterations if „I:he Imperial Government were called upon to publish the full text of the agreement.' In these circumstances he did not propose to press for its publication at pre-1 'sent. THE SYDNEY SHEEP SHOWSYDNEY, June 27. At the Sheep Show, in ithe Border Leicester section for rams 'two years'" old, Mr Nixon, of Rfllinchy, Tjaft, second, and for ram under two years tpib first. Mr Johns, of Devondalo, was rams under eighteen months. Mr Johns' Border Duke was highly commended/' For ewe under two years, Mr Nixon got a highly commended.