Li ites for a Federal Capital, The others is now occupied inspecting
Amended Bill provided tha the Capital should be in N.S.AW., but at_a distance of not less than 200 miles from Sydney. All the southern N.S. W. townsluok upon this as their opportunity, and are not going to let t cir chance slip for want of pushing their claims to the honour before the public.
THE BOOM IN Woor, Our staple export, wool, has this year taken an unprecedented rise, owing drought and other causes shortening the available supply. The benefit, of course, extends not only to. pastoralists, but the whole community at large reaps some of the advantages of an advance in prices, ranging from fifty to seventy-tive per cent, The loss in stock of Into years lias of course been enormous, and those who were unable to hold on through the Jean years are much to be pitied, but the survivors flourish, The last sensational rise was in 1871, the year following the outbreak of the Franco-German war, but this has been completely eclipsed by the phenomenal leap of 1892.
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