AUSTRALIAN.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2501, 4 September 1890, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(Per Press Association*—Copyright.) (by submarine gable.) ADELAIDE, Yesterday. Mr Playford has announced the policy of the new Government, the great point ef which will be an enterprising extension of public vorks, for which a loan will he asked. A railway will be made from the 6reat Northern line to Immininka, at a cost of a million and a quarter, and £300,000 will be spent on new rolling Stock, £170,000 on a new railway station at Adelaide, and £4CO,COO on watei •apply. The land policy will include the re-pnrehase from the present holders of lands suitable for working men's blocks. k bill is also promised making education free tbe loss of which will be made up ky an increase of the probate duty, an increase of the income tax, and the tax from property of 2d, and from trades of Id in the £. Absentees will have to pay 4d in the £1 more taxation than they pay at present. Wheat, shipping, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; floor, atone, £7 10s to £B, roller £8 5s to £9 ; oits, New Zealand, 2s to 2s 3d in bond ; Cape barley, 2s 3d to 7s 6d, English 2e fid to C', a'jord'ng to qua v ty; bran, B}d ; po.lard od.

MELBOURNE, Yesterday. Daring tbe voyage af tbe Avenger four da?tba occurred. Two of the crew died from accidental poisoning, the captain died of £SD2iene, and a seaman fell overboard.

Wheat, medium milling, 3s 6d ; oats, dol’, Ta iarian 2s New Zealand milling 3s l£d ; maize 3s ; peas, 3s Id ; sugar, pST3 white, £25 10s.

SYDNEY, Yesterday. Wheat, chick 3s to 3s 3d, milling 3s lOd to 4s ; oats, 2a to 2a 3d ; maize, best k9dio4s; Cape barley 2s 3d, English 3b (nominal) ; bran 8d ; pollard «£d ; peas (Prussian), 4s; potatoes, £4 to £5 10s; ttfoas, £lO to £l2 ; buiter, 8d to JOd ; 3d to 5d ; bacon, hand cured 6d ta 7d, Near Zealand 9d to lOd ; hams, New Zealand, lOd to Is. Afler tbe federation resolutions are ittiahed tbe Treasurer will briog down his fioancia' staiemeot and taxation proposals. The laiier will be distinctly Freetiade, and tbe Governnaent are prepared to make a fur fight on the question of Freetrade or Protection.

Tbe racehorse Cranbrook hao been found ■idden in a cave abont 20 miles from jbere he was stolen. It is believed that ba Wan taken for stud purposes. A rich reef of gold has been struck near Oraaga, and the lode is 7ft wide and in- [ basing in width. It is estimated that MW yield will be 500 oz to the ton.