NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9894, 22 January 1895, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

■ Skjhbt, Monday. The Narrabeen fatality was tbe result of bathing, not boating as first repotted. A heavy breaker came on the men tiriawares and swept two' of them ti> s&4;' Theithird man was rescued and recqyered! Mr Pmkes.waa only recently /narrie},. „ Au attempt to make a local agreement between the Wallaond miners and tbe proprietary of tbe mine failed. The stumbling block is bettered to be the refnaal of the management to Increase tbe yardage lalea. Several lodges Have rejected tbe Delegate Board's reaolotiaii; and it Is anticipated .that tbe bitch at tUS WallseDd mine will _ cause dtbera, As Wallsend is always regarded Aa the leadet (q any, new movement, Wiokam spa Bollock's Island collerles have notified a similar requotlop to the Helton mine£ ' .. With a view to meeting any demand by the unemployed the Government ate preparing to reolalm 4000 acres of Ciown lands bordering on the Murray river, between Cobran and Fooam Wall.

In connection with the recent hurricane at Fiji, a private letter states that tbe most dreadful thing of all is still to come in the shape of starvation. How the nnfortnnate people who lost everything by tbe bnrrlcane are to beep body and soul together is a mystery. Hundreds are now eatiDg food nnflfc for human Con* sumption, so that an epidemic of dysentery may be expeoted to make ita appear* ancei