AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

♦ A HITCH IN THE COLLIER STKIKE SETTLEMENT. THE SURVEY OF THE PACIFIC CABLE ROUTE. DR. DRUMMOND'S DEATH. IUNITID PBIBB ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, 19th November. Six coal mines have resumed work, but •wing to some cavilling about the other mines a difficulty has arisen, which will be solved by all ceasing to-morrow, pending a settlement. All will then make a freßh start. The fruit crops at Bombalu have been destroyed by frosts. Herbage has dried up, and the river has ceased running at InvereLl. Squatters have suffered heavy losses. A splendid supply of artesian water has been struck on the Werribee Station, near Burke, giving: 356,000 gallons per diem. Sir Henry Parkes denies the statement published in Melbourne that New South Walea is in favour of combining with Canada ' and Britain for the complete survoy of the t route of the Paoifio cable. He Bays that , while he has no objection to confer with Vic- • toria _ and the Canadian Government, he ; certainly would not express an opinion in | writing at the present junoture. t Private intelligence shows that Dr. Drummond, who was arrested at Colombo on a oharge of laroeny, did not poison himself as at first reported. Death was due to ' excitement at his arrest, causing failure of 1 the heart's action.