AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5463, 15 January 1896, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

[Special to Press Association;] . VICTOEIAI? BANKING EETUENS. ; « MBLBOIJRNE, Jan. 14l ,; : ■'. The. quarterly bimking returns show $he assets to be ■ la; ; decrease: rof £48,00(Kas compared. ;With-.. last, quarter: '■ O^e'liabiKties amouktto : an' increase of £1,060,006 0n last quarter. The' coin and bullion held in the banks amount to £8,213,000, an increase of .£436,000. The proportion of coin and bullion to liabilities at call is 14s 8d in the pound. CIVIL SEEVICE COMMISSION. ■■■;■■•' ' .■ ' ■ SYDNEY, Jau. 14. ; The appointment, of - the Civil Service Commission was announced this afternoon. Mr Gy A, Wilson, manager-, of the Bank of. New Zealand in* Sydney, is to. be chairman, and he will have Messrs J. Barling, jjnderSecretary for Public Works, and T. A.. Coghlanj.the well-known Goyernmei?* s{;aas colleagues^ MrW^son, join,ed' the Bank of New Zealand,, in Dunedin,;in 1834, was appointed , accountant, of the Melbpurne branch in 1883, and manager in. 1887, and was transferred to Sydney in 1891. .'"■' ' " ■"'■■■ "■■"•/■'■■'- - : ; ' THE I WEATHER -„, . ; „ ! -./.„', ■ .;-..: '.. r^J^^,S^Nl^-.jAlI r 15J ; ; - Steady rain continues. ~ . The death list on Tuesday wasJLargely supplemented by: deaths in" the country districts. A DEOUGHT BEOkEN, UP. • ..'.',. PERTH, Jan. 14.; . : The long spell of drought on thegoldfields has been broken by a heavy thunder-: storm, which has had fine effect of partly relieving the water famine.^ '■■.. .' i v-|^e^iS6^ei^en^yhas: de^^.-tocspeifjd- ■ ;.&Lb6,6jfo;.^ : ycliief^ini^e'iitt 1 the '^oJg^die got^j^«ia v / : ! : ; : / ■ -TBfE 'MjßDicA^' x^^j^isrcEv^ ■;'■•- ---■ : •, ,■':;■; '■; ■" i BMSBANE,'JANViS.i • '.. : I>r Love will represent the: colony ait the' medical ; cdnferentje ; in .Nevj; '. Zealand, and will make > inquiries. . in -that colony into matters.dealihg^thth^ipu^chealthT. ; •f. ■ '■'• ■■ ■ i '--"V— '' ' ■" " " ' "."..■■.'."■,;- .' ■'■ - i-.- 1 .