AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph – Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received November 25, at 11.30 a.m.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7836, 27 November 1893, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph - Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCI ATION. ) Received November 25, at 11.30 a.m.

Sydney, November 20. Arrived— Wcnona, from Auckland, The Port Jackson Steam Coal Company ha» applied to the Mincß Department for authority to mine on reserves fit South Head, and about eight thousand acres of ocean head. The mchoine projected provides for putting down a colliery at Watson Bay to work coal shown to exist by the Cromorno boro. Mblboujuje, November 23, Arrived— Acacia, from Tairua. During a heavy gale a .seaman named Alexander M'Donald was washed overboard and drowned. Green, of Victoria, performed the uniquo feat of winning three championships at the tennis tournament. Mons Borough, of Ballaiat, won the Queen's Prize at tho Rifle Association meeting with a score of 272. Vernon, of l''cw South Wcles, wa<3 second wibh 270. Premier Patorson inclines to the opinion that tho Chief Commissioner of Railway^ should be Bolected from the leading traffic managers in Amorica. Mr Drew, a member of tho well-known firm of Macready, Drew, and Co., of Melbourne, who in charged with being concerned Sn tho embezzlement of LlO,OOO, ha« been remanded until January, bail being allowed. An application for the discharge of Drow, on the ground that another partner, Macready, had boon discharged by the London magistrates, was refused. Hobakt, November 25. Sailed— Paasa, for Lyttelton; Kenilworth, for Auckland. Newcastle, November 25. Sailed— Grecian Bend, for Timaru j Kate tTatham, for Napier.