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SYDNEY.
Juno io,
Tho Government have decided upon raising
a loan in the money market, amount unknown.
The Government possess an unused borrowing
power of four and a-half millions. , *
A deputation will shortly wait upniV trio
Government, to urge tho construe Lion of' a
bridge over the harbor to tho North Shore. ’
It is stated that Mr. Richards, the Govern*
meat printer, proceeds shortly to Brisbane, to
em£uire into tho practical woiking of tho
Queensland Parliamentary 44 Hansard.1' Tho
Evenin'} Ncxm estimates the cost of ** Hansard’*
in this colony will bo £10,000 a-year.
The Ballania, a., was in collision to*day in
the harbor with two steam launches, which
wero hath injured, whilo the steamer had
deckhouse stove in, and ono of her crew badly
injured.
A telegram to the S. M, Ilerahl from Port*
land, Victoria, states that tho Cuzco, 8,, after
leaving Plymouth had a splendid passage,
steaming at tho rate of thirteen knots an hour;
but since May 2$, when tho shaft broke, only
six knots an hour. ‘ Heavy galea since tho
accident wero experienced, and tho captain
had scarcely obtained twenty-four hours’ rest.
A gale on June 8 was the worst, when tho
sails wero blown away. Tho captain tried to
innko Adelaide, hut failed. Mr Bates, god
father of midshipman Pearce, who saved the
life of Mistt Carmichael at the wreck of tho
Loch Ard, is amongst the passengers.
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