NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9152, 6 September 1888, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wylie, the champion draughts player of the world, has returned to Melbourne from New Zealand. Mr. N. Blanch Bain intends to develop the coal-raining: industry in Victoria. He expects to raise 100 tons a day. The Rev. J. S. Hill nifty be expected to give an address on The Parable*," this evening, in the Y.M.C. A. Rooms, at 7.30. It is reported that there is a great falling off of business at Adelaide, This is regarded as one of the effects of the strike. Mr. C. Laßoche. who has been on a visit to England, had booked a passage to Auckland by the R.M. s. Coromandel, which left London on the '26th July. The safe in the office at the Garrington Athletic grounds, Sydney, was recently blown open by dynamite, and the contents (about £600) abstracted. Captain Edwin reported at quarter to four p.m. Yesterdav : North-west to west and south, gale with much colder weather. Glass will further rise. Hitherto Queensland coals have been unsaleable in the southern port*, but owing to the strike they are now being eagerly inquired after in Melbourne. A German named Fredericks committed suicide recently at Four-mile, on the fctheridge goldfield (Queensland), by blowing his Wl completely off with dynamite. The Government geologist, who has returned from an inspection of the supposed coalfields at Murray Flat*, South Australia, states that he is unable to find any indications of coal. Stone showing gold has been struck in the Day Dawn freehold. Charters Towers, at a depth of 930 feet. This is the deepest level at which gold has yet. been found at Charters Towers. The Melbourne ironmasters met on Monday, and decided not to yield to the demands of the moulders for a minimum wage of lis. Owing to the coal strike the masters do not feel seriously the ironmoulders' strike It it suited that a large copper company, with a capital of £100,000, w*s successfully floated in one hour on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. The company's property is situated in the vicinity of Northampton (W.A.I \mom-; the passengers who arrived from Sydney bv the s,s. Manapouri yesterday, was Mr. H. W. Henderson, of the wellknown shipping firm of Henderson and Maeiarline. who has returned to Auckland after a lengthy business visit to the old country. The" drought in the West (says the Sydney Mail) appears to be playing great havoc with the squatters. The season is the worst that has been known for many years. Many sheep are dving, and the outlook generally is said to be a dismal one. The.-« is a movement on foot in South Australia for the formation of a treaty with Queensland, under which South Australian wines, fruits, jams, breadstuffs, and dairy produce will be admitted into Queensland free, in return for the admission into South Australia, tree of duty, of Queensland sugar. At a meeting of the Adelaide Trades and Labour Council a letter was received from the Melbourne Trades and Labour Council, asking the Council to request the Government to nrotest against the introduction of pauper labour into the colonies, as was threatened bv the passing of the Local Government Kill in England. It was decided to ask the Government to take action in resrar-d to that quest