AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 2

A USTRALIAN NEWS.

(PEB PttESS ASSOCIATION.; Sydney, Tbis day. The Port Jackson Steam Coal Co. has applied to the Mines Department for authority to mine on the leserves at South Head and about eight thousand acres of ocean bed. The scheme is projected as a provision for putting down a colliery at Warton's Bay to work the coal shown to exist by the Cremorne bore. Melbouene, This day. Arrived — Arcadia from Tairua. During a heavy gale a seaman named Alexander Macdonald was washed overboard and drowned. Green, of Victoria, performed the unique feat of winning three championships at the tennis tournament. Monborough, of Ballarat, won the, Queen's prize at the Rifle Association meeting witb a score of 272, Yemen, of New South Wales, being second with 27C. Premier Patterson inclines to the opinion that the chief commissioner of railways should be selected frora the leading traffic managers in America. Drew, a member of the well known firm of Macready, Drew and Co., of Melbourne, who is charged with being concerned in the embezzlement of £10,000, has been remanded till January.