AUSTRALIAN.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 264, 19 January 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

THE PACIFIC CABLE OPENING OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL. SILVER MINING BOOM r BUSII FIRES IN N.S. WALES BURNING OF A SHIP AT SEA. Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright. United Press Association. Melboukxb, Jan 17. Mr Owen Jones, one of the Board of directors of the' Pacific Gable Company, sailed oil the 16th Uoq. for Australia to arrange the terms on which a cafile should fie laid aoras§ the Papific, and on what h i sis Canada, and the Colonies should subsidise it. The attempt to float the Edinburgh Castle has been abandoned. The vessel, however, is intact. Hon art, Jan 17.. Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia are represented at the Feiierafciqn'' 'Council. Sir Samuel Griffiths was chosen President. His Excellency Hie Governor opened the Council. He said that the prospect of other colonies joining io. federation was near at hand, but until that federation would not be complete. The President in reply said that the delegates had met, not for horoib ldgisRtion, put' to prevent' tfie movement'dying a natural death. The business transacted yesterday was purely formal. Sydney, Jan. 17. The White Rock Silver Mining Company, Fairfield, has been floated with a capital of £1,000,000. The amount was sul scribed twofold. The proprietors get £ Lj(|, 0 ( J(j in cash and dHob/Oim in paid-up shares. Leases aro being taken up in all directions. Jan I<S. Further reports from the country stiftd that a bush fire in the ui.igiy horhoou of Albury has been moM ruinous to settlers. An immense area of crops has been destroyed, and the fires arc still olizing. Many fanners in the atu utterly ruined' through tfieir loss Qt crops. j The sli pJ. T. Barry, which was ■ burned at sea on the 6th inst., was laden with petroleum, thus accounting for tlic rapid spread of the flames. • It' is thought- that ‘the missing boat may make for Lord 1 Howe Island, which would he a much nearer port than the coast of Now Zealand when the burning vessel wa.-, abandoned; Adelaide, Jan 17'. The South Australian Government have demined to grant a vote in aid of the Belgium Exhibition.