Latest. STDNEY'S NEW COALFIELD. FATALITY AT SEA.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 126, 25 November 1893, Page 2

Latest. STDNEY'S NEW COALFIELD. FATALITY AT SEA.

lUNITJD PRKBB ASSOCIATION.! (Received November 25,'1130a.m.) Stdkbt, This Day. The Port Jackson Steam Coal Company has applied to the Mines Department lor authority to mine on the reserves at tho South Head, arid- under about 8000 aores of ocean bed. The scheme projected provides for putting down a colliery at Watson's Bay to work the coal shown to exist by the Cremorne bore. The experiment of sending mandarins, oranges, and lemons to London packed in ti tree bark 'has resulted "successfully. A very small percentage of the fruit was damaged. Mblbouiiots, This Dat. During a heavy gale on the voyage of the Acacia from Tairua, a seaman named Aloxander Maodonald was washed overboard and drowned. Green, of Viotoria, performed the unique feat of winning three championships at the Tennis Tournament. Monsborongh, o£ Ballarat, won the Queen's Prize at the Sine Association meeting with a score of 272, Vernon, of New South Wales, being second with 270. The Premier, Mr. Patterson, inclines to the opinion that the Chief Commissioner of Railways should be selected from the leading traffic managers in America.' . Drew, a member of the well-known firm of M'Credy, Drew & Co., of Melbourne, who is charged with being concerned in the embezzlement of .£lO,OOO, has been remanded till January, bail being allowed. An application for tho discharge of Drew on the ground that another partner, M'Credy, had been discharged by London Magistrates, was refused.