SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 3, 12 May 1888, Page 2

SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

+ Antwerp wool sales show an advance. .England is raising a third army corps ;to garrison the coaling stations. "Life Insurance pays. The A.M.P. have made £614,000 this year. A youth named Borth wick, belonging to an Auckland vessel, the Jessie, has been, accidentally.. drowned iv Sydney harbour; •? vy. S; ' In Sydney on Thursday a woman named Park threw herself, inj^ont of an approaching engine bii the southern line of railway^ and was literally* cut to pieces. : -.-.:••"■ * .Melbourne exhibition.^wilUiAcost £280,000 before it is opened. The Chinese won't quit the Croydon goldfield, and the miners threaten to eject them. Six -hundred of the Chinese have armed themselves to resist. Tailors on strike in Auckland. The Chambers of Commerce are stirring up the Government to throw open the Native Lands. At Dunedin on Thursday, James Hooper, for: Attempting to murder Thomas Black at the Peninsula, was committed. Colonial Insurance Company made a profit of £3547 10s lOd last year. The English papers are drawing attention to the naval strength of Russia in the Pacific. They consider that in the event of a fight ithe British squadron would be defeated. Chinese labor : is to be excluded from the United Stete^ for twenty years. ........