AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11463, 29 December 1897, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

Usited Press Association—Electric TelegraphCopyright.

Received Dec. 28, 9.58-a.m, THE KLONDYKE GOLDFIELD. SYDNEY, Dec. 28,

Private letters from miners at Klondyke warn Australians against going there, owing to the rigour of the climate and the difficulties in reaching the field. The writers admit that the Klondyke is wonderfully rich, but so many thousands of Americans and Canadians are ready to rush the field when the spring comes, that it will be wise for visiting Australians to make provision for ■returning in the event of failure.

Received Pec. 28, 9.30 pan. A MYSTERIOUS LEAK. The barque Northern Chief had just reached an anchorage at Newcastle from Port Pirie, when it was-discovered that the vessel was making water badly, and, in order to prevent her sinking, she was beached. The origin of the leak is a mystery. Received Dec. 2S, 11 p.m. CAPTAIN RUSSELL. Captain; Russell passed through Sydney en route to England. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY, MELBOURNE, Dec. 28. A man named Gregan and his son were drinking together. The son knocked his father down for making a disparaging remark about his dead mother, and left him lying in a passage all night. He went in. the morning for a doctor, but his father was then dead. The son is in custody.